NEHEMIAH LOOKS UPON THE RUINS OF JERUSALEM. Nehemiah ii. 17.
“Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.” From the book ' The Old Testament : three hundred and ninety-six compositions illustrating the Old Testament ' Part II by J. James Tissot Published by M. de Brunoff in Paris, London and New York in 1904