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

Jehovah swallowed up, not pitying, all the seats of Jacob: he pulled down in his wrath the fortresses of the daughter of Judah; he caused to touch to the earth: he defiled the kingdom and her chiefs.

Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city.

Come

And the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judah and in Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, to them.

And Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the sons of Elam, will answer and say to Ezra, We transgressed against our God, and we were dwelling with strange wives from the people of the land: and now there is hope to Israel concerning this.

Strengthen the relaxed hands and make firm the feeble knees.

A reproach

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.

And Nahash the Ammonite will say to them, Upon this I will cut out to you in boring out for you every right eye, and I put it a reproach upon all Israel.

Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us.

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

Remember, O Jehovah, the reproach of thy servants; I lifted up in my bosom all the multitudes of peoples;

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.

Thou didst set us the offscouring and despising in the midst of peoples.

And I will give thee for a waste, and for a reproach among the nations which are round about thee, before the eyes of all passing by.

In thy blood which thou didst pour out thou went guilty; and by thy blocks which thou didst make thou wert defiled; and thou wilt cause thy days to draw near, and thou wilt come even to thy years: for this, I gave thee a reproach to the nations, and a derision to all the lands.

General references

For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust