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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.

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Ye see

{Beth} The LORD hath cast down all the glory of Jacob without any favour: all the strong places of the daughter Judah hath he broken in his wrath, and thrown them down to the ground: her kingdom and her princes hath he suspended.
Mine eye breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my city.

Come

The Prophets, Haggai, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel.
And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the children of Elam, answered, and said unto Ezra, "We have trespassed against the LORD our God, in that we have taken strange wives of the people of the land. Now there is hope yet in Israel concerning this:
And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees.

A reproach

And they said unto me, "The remnant of the captivity are there in the land in great misfortune and rebuke. The walls of Jerusalem are broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire."
"Make a covenant with us and we will be thy servants." And Nahash the Ammonite said, "Hereto will I make a covenant with you: even to thrust out all your right eyes, that I may bring that shame upon all Israel."
Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.
We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.
Remember, LORD, the rebuke that the multitude of the people do unto thy servants, and how I have borne it in my bosom;
And will make them to be a reproof, a common byword, a laughingstock and shame, in all the places where I shall scatter them.
Thou hast made us outcasts, and to be despised among the Heathen.
Moreover, I will make thee waste and abhorred before all the Heathen that dwell about thee, and in the sight of all them that go by thee:
Thou hast made thyself guilty in the blood that thou hast shed, and defiled thee in the Idols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy days to draw nigh, and made the time of thy years to come. Therefore will I make thee to be confounded among the heathen, and to be despised in all the lands.

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And why? Thy servants think upon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.
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