Nehemiah 2:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates have been burnt. Come! Let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, reviving us in order to restore the House of our God, to raise up its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant who have survived the captivity there in the province are in great distress and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:13

By night I went out by the Valley Gate toward Jackal Spring and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, but as yet I had not told the Jews, the kohanim, the nobles, the officials or the rest of the workers.

Nehemiah 3:15

Shallun son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King’s Garden, as far as the stairs going down from the City of David.

Psalm 102:15

for her stones are dear to Your servants, and they cherish her dust.

Psalm 44:13

You are selling Your people cheaply— not even getting a great price for them.

Psalm 44:14

You made us a taunt for our neighbors, a scorn and ridicule for those around us.

Psalm 79:12

Pay back into the midst of our neighbors sevenfold their reproach— the reproach they hurled at You, my Lord.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will even give them as a horror, as an evil thing, among all the kingdoms of the earth—as a disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse—in all places where I will drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

My Lord has mercilessly swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. He threw down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His fury. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye torments my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

“Moreover I will make you a ruin and a mockery among the surrounding nations and in the sight of all who pass by.

Micah 7:11

A day to rebuild your walls— a day the boundary will be far off,

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “Only on this condition will I make a treaty with you—by gouging out the right eye of every one of you, thus I will bring disgrace on all Israel.”