Nechemyah 2:3-5

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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.

⁵ And I said unto HaMelech, If it please HaMelech, and if thy eved have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Yehudah, unto the Ir Kivrot Avotai, that I may rebuild her.