Nehemiah 1:3

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Summary

And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

The province

Esther 1:1

In great

Lamentations 5:1

Reproach

Jeremiah 44:8

The wall

Jeremiah 52:14

General references

Deuteronomy 4:27

Psalm 102:14

Bible References

The province

These the sons of the province coming up from the captivity of the: exile which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel carried into exile; and they will turn back to Jerusalem and to Judah, a man to his city;

And these the heads of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: and in the cities of Judah they dwelt, each in his possession in their cities of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the sons of Solomon's servants.

And these the sons of the province coming up from the captivity of the exiles which Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile to Babel; and they will turn back to Jerusalem and Judah, a man to his city;

To be known to the king that we went to the Judah province, to the house of the great God; and it was building with stone of rolling, and wood being set up in the walls; and this work being diligently done, and prospering in their hands.

And it will be in the days of Ahasuerus, (this Ahasuerus reigned from India and even to Cush; seven and twenty and one hundred provinces:)

In great

Behold, we this day are servants, and the land which thou gavest to our fathers to eat its fruit and its goodness, behold, we are servants upon it:

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion.

Rise up, ye careless women; hear my voice, ye confident daughters; give ear to my word.

Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction and her wanderings, all her delights which were from the days of old in the falling of her people into the hand of the enemy, and none helping for her: the adversaries saw her; they laughed at her calamities.

Thou heardest their reproach, O Jehovah, all their purposes against me.

Remember, O Jehovah, what was to us: look and see our reproach.

Reproach

And I cut off Israel from the face of the earth which I gave to them and the house which I consecrated to my name I will cast out from my face; and Israel was for a parable and for a derision among all peoples.

We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.

And will defile the chiefs of the holy place, and will give Jacob to be devoted, and Israel for reproaches.

And I gave them for maltreatment, and for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a parable, and for a derision, and for a curse in, all the places which I shall thrust them away there.

And I pursued after them with the sword, with famine and with death, and I gave them for agitation to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for astonishment, and for hissing and for a reproach among all the nations which I thrust them away there:

For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, as mine anger was poured out, and my wrath upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured out upon you in your going to Egypt: and ye were for a curse and for an astonishment and for reviling, and for reproach; and ye shall no more see this place.

For your irritating me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where ye go to sojourn there, to cut off to you, and for your being for a curse and for a reproach in all the nations of the earth.

The wall

And saying to them, Ye seeing the evil which we are in it, how Jerusalem lay waste, and her gates were burnt with fire: come ye, and we will build the walls of Jerusalem, and we shall be no more a reproach.

And the walls of Jerusalem round about, all the strength of the Chaldees which were with the chief of the cooks brake down.

And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down.

The cities of thy holy place were desert; Zion was a desert., Jerusalem a desolation.

Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; and ye shall not make a completion: remove her twigs, for they are not to Jehovah.

And the Chaldeans burnt the house of the king, and the house of the people, with fire, and they broke the walls of Jerusalem.

And all the walls of Jerusalem round about, all the strength of the Chaldees which were with the chief of the cooks, brake down.

General references

And Jehovah scattered you among the peoples, and ye remained men of number among the nations where Jehovah will lead you there.

For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust