Nehemiah 2:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.

¹⁶ But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.

¹⁷ Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.