3 Then I said to the king: “Let the king himself live to time indefinite!+ Why should not my face become gloomy when the city,+ the house of the burial places of my forefathers,+ is devastated, and its very gates have been eaten up with fire?”+

6 So we kept building the wall, and the entire wall came to be joined together clear to half its [height], and the people continued to have a heart for working.+

16 O Jehovah,* according to all your acts of righteousness,+ please, may your anger and your rage turn back from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain;+ for, because of our sins and because of the errors of our forefathers,+ Jerusalem and your people are an object of reproach to all those round about us.+