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when my brother Hanani came with some men from Judah. So I asked them about the Jews who had escaped[a] from being captives in Babylonia. I also asked them about the city of Jerusalem.

They told me, “Those captives who have come back are having all kinds of troubles. They are terribly disgraced, Jerusalem's walls are broken down, and its gates have been burned.”

When I heard this, I sat down on the ground and cried. Then for several days, I mourned; I went without eating to show my sorrow, and I prayed:

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Footnotes

  1. 1.2 escaped: Or “returned.”

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