Nehemiah 1:3

Nehemiah's Prayer For The People

² And Hanani one of my brethren will come, he and men from Judah; and I shall ask them concerning the Jews of the escaping which were left from the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. ³ And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire. ⁴ And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens,

In Great Distress

Walls of Jerusalem

Destroyed By Fire

Great Distress

Jerusalem

Nehemiah 2:17

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.

2 Kings 25:10

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

Nehemiah 2:3

And saying to the king, O king, thou wilt live forever: wherefore shall not my face be sad when the city of the house of my father's sepulchres was laid waste, and its gates consumed with fire?

Nehemiah 2:13

And I shall go forth by the gate of the valley by night, and before the second fountain, and to the gate of the dung-hill, and I shall be watching the walls of Jerusalem that they being broken, and its gates were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 7:6

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;

1 Kings 9:7

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.

Ezra 2:1

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;

Ezra 5:8

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.

Nehemiah 9:36-37

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:

Nehemiah 11:3

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.

Esther 1:1

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:)

Psalm 44:11-14

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

Psalm 79:4

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

Psalm 137:1-3

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

Isaiah 5:5

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.

Isaiah 32:9-14

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

Isaiah 43:28

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

Isaiah 64:10-11

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

Jeremiah 5:10

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

Jeremiah 24:9

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.

Jeremiah 29:18

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:

Jeremiah 39:8

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

Jeremiah 42:18

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.

Jeremiah 44:8-12

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.

Jeremiah 52:14

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

Lamentations 1:7

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.

Lamentations 3:61

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

Lamentations 5:1

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