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

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

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.