Nehemiah 2:17
"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."
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- Ezekiel 5:14
"Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 35:3
"Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 3:51
"Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 3:45
"Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."
Read in chapter → - Nehemiah 1:3
"And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 79:4
"We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 22:4
"Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 2:8
"The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 89:50
"Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;"
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 2:2
"The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof."
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