^{3 Ref} I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?

^{4 Ref} Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

^{5 Ref} I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.