Nehemiah 4:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:9

And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

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.

Proverbs 3:34

He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

Hosea 12:14

I have been bitterly moved to wrath by Ephraim; so that his blood will be on him, and the Lord will make his shame come back on him.

1 Samuel 17:26

And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?