Nechemyah 2:2-4

Orthodox Jewish Bible

² Wherefore HaMelech said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not choleh (sick)? This is nothing else but ro’ah lev. Then I was very much afraid,

³ And said unto HaMelech, HaMelech l’olam yicheyeh. Why should not my countenance look sad, when HaIr, the Bais Kivrot Avotai, lieth in ruins, and the gates thereof are consumed with eish?

⁴ Then HaMelech said unto me, For what dost Thou make request? So I davened to Elohei HaShomayim.