Nehemiah 2:17

English Standard Version 2016

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:14

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Lamentations 3:51

my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Psalm 79:12

Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!

Psalm 44:13

You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.”

Nehemiah 2:13

I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Ezra 9:9

For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.

Psalm 44:14

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Psalm 102:15

Nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.

Micah 7:11

A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.