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Nehemiah 2:2-3
English Standard Version
Nehemiah 2:2-3
English Standard Version
2 And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but (A)sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid. 3 I said to the king, (B)“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, (C)when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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