Nehemiah 2:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁷ Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Yerushalayim lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Yerushalayim, that we be no more a reproach.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then I said to them, You see the bad situation we are in–how Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a disgrace.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ So I said to them, “You see the trouble that we’re in: Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are destroyed by fire! Come, let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we won’t continue to be in disgrace.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And so I said to them: "You know the affliction in which we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and its gates have been consumed by fire. Come, and let us rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, and let us no longer be in disgrace."

Nehemiah 2:17 Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Paras, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Yerushalayim also is broken down, and the gates of it are burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:13

I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Yerushalayim, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the Kohanim, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Kolchozeh, the ruler of the district of Mitzpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, and the wall of the pool of Shelach by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Psalm 102:15

So the nations will fear the name of the LORD; all the kings of the earth your glory.

Psalm 44:13

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Psalm 44:14

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 79:12

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Ya`akov, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Yehudah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.

Micah 7:11

A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.

1 Samuel 11:2

Nachash the `Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Yisra'el.