Nehemiah 2:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Ye see

Lamentations 2:2

Lamentations 3:51

Come

Ezra 5:1

Ezra 10:2

Isaiah 35:3

A reproach

General references

Psalm 102:14

Bible References

Ye see

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.

Come

Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.

And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

A reproach

And they said to me, "The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire."

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel."

You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.

You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.

General references

For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.