I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

I suffer all day long, and am punished every morning.”

So I came to Jerusalem. When I had been there for three days,

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, “He hired me and I became his priest.”

I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.

When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

“Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’