Nehemiah 2:17
And I said to them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem is wasted, and the gates of it are burned with fire. Come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no more be a reproach.
Nehemiah 1:3
And they said to me, The remnant left of the captivity there in the province is in great affliction and shame. And the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.
Ezekiel 5:14
And I will make you a waste and a curse among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Psalm 44:13
You make us a curse to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those who are round about us.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us.
Jeremiah 24:9
and I will even make them a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a proverb, a gibe and a curse, there in all places where I shall drive them.
1 Samuel 11:2
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, With this I will make a covenant with you, when all your right eyes are dug out and I will make it a reproach on all Israel.
Ezra 5:1-2
Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
Ezra 10:2-4
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have sinned against our God and have taken strange women from the people of the land. Yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Psalm 79:12
and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord.
Psalm 89:50-51
Remember, Lord, the scorn of Your servants; how I bear in my bosom the insult of all the mighty people,
Isaiah 35:3-4
Make the weak hands strong and make the feeble knees sure.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord swallowed up all the dwelling-places of Jacob and has not pitied. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.
Lamentations 2:8-9
Jehovah purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing, and He made rampart and wall lament; they languish together.
Lamentations 3:45-46
You have made us as the sweepings and garbage in the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3:51
My eye pains my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Ezekiel 22:4-5
You are guilty in your blood that you have shed; and you have defiled yourself in your idols you have made. And your days are brought near, and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all lands.