Nehemiah 2
First person
Tells King
Sadness filling
Because homeland
Falters, breaks
Crumbles apart
King Artaxerxes
Seeks request
“If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor with you, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors’ graves, so that I may rebuild it.”
How long?
Return when?
Nehemiah answers
With dates
Letters of
Kingly protection
Grant travel
Royal authority
Beyond river
Governors displeased
That someone
Sought welfare
Israel’s people
Not forgotten
Jerusalem inspection
Three days
Nighttime excursion
Of walls
“In ruins
We lie,
In burnt
Disgrace sit,
Shall we
In graciousness
Kingly protection
Jerusalem rebuild?”
God’s hand
Favored this
Agreement came
among rebuilders
But mocking
Ridicule without
And some things never change.
