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and the king saith to me, `Wherefore `is' thy face sad, and thou not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;' and I fear very much,

לִ֨י (לִ֨) l “to”

and say to the king, `Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, `is' a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'

לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (לַ) la. “to the”לְעוֹלָ֣ם (לְ) le. “for”

And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

לִי֙ (לִ) l “to”

and say to the king, `If to the king `it be' good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.'

לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (לַ) la. “to the”לְפָנֶ֑יךָ (לְ) le. “<to>”

And the king saith to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is thy journey? and when dost thou return?' and it is good before the king, and he sendeth me away, and I set to him a time.

לִ֨י (לִ֨) l “to”לִפְנֵֽי־ (לִ) li “<to>”ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “to”

And I say to the king, `If to the king `it be' good, letters let be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass over till that I come in unto Judah:

לַמֶּלֶךְ֒ (לַ) la. “to the”לִ֔י (לִ֔) L “to”

and a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king hath, that he give to me trees for beams `for' the gates of the palace that the house hath, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter;' and the king giveth to me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

לַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (לַ) la. “[belongs] to the”לִ֣י (לִ֣) l “to <the>”לְ֠קָרוֹת (לְ֠) Le. “to”לַבַּ֙יִת֙ (לַ) la. “[belongs] to the”וּלְחוֹמַ֣ת (לְ) le. “for”וְלַבַּ֖יִת (לַ) la. “for the”לִ֣י (לִ֣) l “to”

And I come in unto the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sendeth with me heads of a force, and horsemen;

לָהֶ֔ם (לָ) la. “to”

and Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them -- a great evil -- that a man hath come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.

לָהֶ֖ם (לָ) la. “to”לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ (לְ) le. “to”לִבְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “for”

and I rise by night, I and a few men with me, and have not declared to a man what my God is giving unto my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding.

לְאָדָ֔ם (לְ) le. “to”לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת (לַ) la. “to”לִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (לִ) li. “for”

And I pass over unto the gate of the fountain, and unto the pool of the king, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,

לַבְּהֵמָ֖ה (לַ) la. “for the”לַעֲבֹ֥ר (לַ) la. “to”

And the prefects have not known whither I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the freemen, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, hitherto I have not declared `it';

וְלַיְּהוּדִ֨ים (לַ) lai. “to the”וְלַכֹּהֲנִ֜ים (לַ) la. “to the”וְלַחֹרִ֣ים (לַ) la. “to the”וְלַסְּגָנִ֗ים (לַ) la. “to the”וּלְיֶ֙תֶר֙ (לְ) le. “to”

And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good upon me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, `Let us rise, and we have built;' and they strengthen their hands for good.

לָהֶ֜ם (לָ) la. “to”לִ֑י (לִ֑) L “to”לַטּוֹבָֽה׃ (לַ) la. “for <the>”

And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What `is' this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

לָ֔נוּ (לָ֔) La. “<to>”

And I return them word, and say to them, `The God of the heavens -- He doth give prosperity to us, and we His servants rise and have built; and to you there is no portion, and right, and memorial in Jerusalem.'

לָהֶם֙ (לָ) la. “to”לָ֔נוּ (לָ֔) La. “to”וְלָכֶ֗ם (לָ) la. “[belongs] to”

And by their hand hath Melatiah the Gibeonite strengthened, and Jadon the Meronothite, men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, to the throne of the governor beyond the River.

לְכִסֵּ֕א (לְ) le. “to”

And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

לְגַן־ (לְ) le. “of”

After him have the Levites strengthened, `and' Rehum son of Bani: by his hand hath Hashabiah, head of the half of the district of Keilah, strengthened, for his district.

לְפִלְכּֽוֹ׃ (לְ) le. “for”

Palal son of Uzai, from over-against the angle, and the tower that is going out from the upper house of the king that `is' at the court of the prison; after him Pedaiah son of Parosh.

לַחֲצַ֣ר (לַ) la. “[belongs] to”

And the Nethinim have been dwelling in Ophel, unto over-against the water-gate at the east, and the tower that goeth out.

לַמִּזְרָ֔ח (לַ) la. “to the”

From above the horse-gate have the priests strengthened, each over-against his house.

לְנֶ֥גֶד (לְ) le. “to”

And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep-gate, have the refiners and the merchants strengthened.

לְשַׁ֣עַר (לְ) le. “and”

And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard that we are building the wall, that it is displeasing to him, and he is very angry and mocketh at the Jews,

ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “to”

and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What `are' the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!'

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לָהֶ֤ם (לָ) la. “for”

Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;

לְבִזָּ֖ה (לְ) le. “to”