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 devoured; he has not shown mercy to all the dwellings of Jacob; he has broken down in his wrath the fortifications of the daughter of Judah; he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored the kingdom and its commanders.

My eyes inflict my soul because 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 in Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.

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

Strengthen [the] weak hands and make [the] staggering knees firm.

A reproach

They replied to me, "The survivors in the province who have survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned in the fire."

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this [condition] {I will make a treaty} with you, by gouging out the right eye of each of you, so that I can make it a disgrace for all Israel."

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, [how] I bear in my bosom [the taunts of] all [the] many peoples,

And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.

You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the nations.

And I will make you into a desolate place and into a disgrace among the nations that surround you before the eyes of {every one who passes by}.

By your blood that you poured out you have become guilty, and by your idols that you made you have become unclean, and you have brought your days near, {and your appointed years have come}. Therefore I have made you a disgrace for the nations and a laughingstock to all of the countries.

General references

Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to its dust.