Nehemiah 2:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

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

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

Psalm 102:15

So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:

Psalm 44:13

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Psalm 44:14

Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

Psalm 79:12

And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

Psalm 79:4

We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

Lamentations 3:51

The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

Ezekiel 5:14

And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

Micah 7:11

A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, I will make an agreement with you on this condition, that all your right eyes are put out; so that I may make it a cause of shame to all Israel.