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'Reproach' in the Bible

They said to me, "The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!"

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallCity GatesBurning JerusalemSurvivors Of Israel

Then I said to them, "You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let's rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue."

Verse ConceptsWallsDistressDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning JerusalemEliminating ShameRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Verse ConceptsHeadsInferiorityCrying To GodLet Evil ReboundPay Attention O God!

Then I said, "The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?

Verse ConceptsReproachFear God!

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

Verse ConceptsIntimidationFear Of EnemiesOvercoming

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