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

Without mercy Jehovah destroyed every village in Judah. He tore down the forts that defended the land. He brought disgrace on the kingdom and its rulers.

My eyes bring me pain because of all the daughters of my town.

Come

The prophets Haggai and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, were preaching to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel.

Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land. But still there is hope for Israel in this question.

Strengthen the tired hands and the knees that tremble with weakness.

A reproach

They said to me: The small band of Jews now living there in the land is in deep trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

Nahash answered: I will make a treaty with you on one condition. I will put out everyone's right eye and so bring disgrace on all Israel.

You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

Jehovah, remember the reproach of your servant. Remember how I have carried in my heart the insults from so many people.

I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. They will be a disgrace and an example. They will become something ridiculed and cursed wherever I scatter them.

You made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

I will turn you into a wasteland and an object of ridicule among the nations around you and in the presence of everyone who passes by you.

You are guilty because of the blood you have shed (people you have killed). You are unclean (dishonored) because of the disgusting idols you have made. You have brought an end to your days, and you have come to the end of your years. That is why I will make you a disgrace to the nations and a joke in every land.

General references

Your servants find pleasure in her stones and feel pity for her dust.