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. ¹  When I had been there for three days,

When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, ¹  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 ¹  and the Dung Gate, ²  inspecting ³  the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.