3 And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and ^dshame. ^eThe wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

13 I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer ^ederision.”