Nehemiah 2:17

Young's Literal Translation 1898

and I say unto them, ‘Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem [is] waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.’

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

for servants we [are], and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

and they say to me, ‘Those left, who have been left of the captivity there in the province, [are] in great evil, and in reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burnt with fire.’

Nehemiah 2:13

And I go out through the gate of the valley by night, and unto the front of the fountain of the dragon, and unto the gate of the dunghill, and I am measuring about the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the prefects have not known whither I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the freemen, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, hitherto I have not declared [it];

Nehemiah 3:15

And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

Psalm 102:15

And nations fear the name of Jehovah, And all kings of the earth Thine honour,

Psalm 44:13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

Psalm 44:14

Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

Psalm 79:12

And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

Psalm 79:4

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

Jeremiah 24:9

And I have given them for a trembling, For evil — to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

Swallowed up hath the Lord, He hath not pitied any of the pleasant places of Jacob, He hath broken down in His wrath The fortresses of the daughter of Judah, He hath caused to come to the earth, He polluted the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that [are] round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

Micah 7:11

The day to build thy walls! That day — removed is the limit.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite saith unto them, ‘For this I covenant with you, by picking out to you every right eye — and I have put it a reproach on all Israel.’