Nehemiah 2:17
and I say unto them, 'Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem is waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.'
Nehemiah 1:3
and they say to me, 'Those left, who have been left of the captivity there in the province, are in great evil, and in reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burnt with fire.'
Ezekiel 5:14
And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that are round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.
Psalm 44:13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
Psalm 79:4
We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.
Jeremiah 24:9
And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.
1 Samuel 11:2
And Nahash the Ammonite saith unto them, 'For this I covenant with you, by picking out to you every right eye -- and I have put it a reproach on all Israel.'
Ezra 5:1-2
And prophesied have the prophets, (Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo) unto the Jews who are in Judah and in Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel -- unto them.
Ezra 10:2-4
And Shechaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answereth and saith to Ezra, 'We -- we have trespassed against our God, and we settle strange women of the peoples of the land; and now there is hope for Israel concerning this,
Psalm 79:12
And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.
Psalm 89:50-51
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,
Isaiah 35:3-4
Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
Lamentations 2:2
Swallowed up hath the Lord, He hath not pitied any of the pleasant places of Jacob, He hath broken down in His wrath The fortresses of the daughter of Judah, He hath caused to come to the earth, He polluted the kingdom and its princes.
Lamentations 2:8-9
Devised hath Jehovah to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion, He hath stretched out a line, He hath not turned His hand from destroying, And He causeth bulwark and wall to mourn, Together -- they have been weak.
Lamentations 3:45-46
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3:51
My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
Ezekiel 22:4-5
By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty, And by thine idols that thou hast made thou hast been defiled, And thou causest thy days to draw near, And art come in unto thine years, Therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations, And a derision to all the lands.