Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in—how Jerusalem is desolate and lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its [fortified] gates have been burned (destroyed) by fire.”
Ezekiel 5:14
Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a disgrace among the nations which surround you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Psalm 44:13
You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
Psalm 79:4
We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a focus of ridicule and disappointment [tossed back and forth] among all the kingdoms of the earth, a [notorious] disgrace, a byword, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.
1 Samuel 11:2
But Nahash the Ammonite told them, “I will make a treaty with you on this condition, that I will
Ezra 5:1-2
Now when the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son (grandson) of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, whose Spirit was over them,
Ezra 10:2-4
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Psalm 79:12
And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold
The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.
Psalm 89:50-51
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in
Isaiah 35:3-4
Encourage the exhausted, and make staggering knees firm.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared
All the country places of Jacob.
In His wrath He has thrown down
The strongholds of the Daughter of Judah (Jerusalem).
He has brought them down to the ground [in disgrace];
He has debased the kingdom and its princes.
Lamentations 2:8-9
The Lord determined to lay in ruins
The [city] wall of the Daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line,
He has not stopped His hand from destroying.
He has caused the rampart and the wall to lament (mourn in grief);
They have languished together.
Lamentations 3:45-46
You have made us scum and refuse
Among the peoples (Gentile nations).
Lamentations 3:51
My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Ezekiel 22:4-5
You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols which you have made. Thus you have caused your day [of judgment and punishment] to approach and have arrived at [the completion of] your years; therefore, I have made you an object of scorn to the [pagan] nations and a thing to be mocked by all countries.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Come
A reproach
General references
Bible References
Ye see
The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared
All the country places of Jacob.
In His wrath He has thrown down
The strongholds of the Daughter of Judah (Jerusalem).
He has brought them down to the ground [in disgrace];
He has debased the kingdom and its princes.
My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Come
Encourage the exhausted, and make staggering knees firm.
A reproach
You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in
You have made us scum and refuse
Among the peoples (Gentile nations).
General references
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.