Why Is Thy Countenance Sad? — Nehemiah 2:1–3

    And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
NEH 2:1
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    And the king said unto me,
Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart.
Then I was very sore afraid.
NEH 2:2

    And I said unto the king,
Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
NEH 2:3
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