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Nehemiah 2:17 (KJV)

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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1 Samuel 11:2 - And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition] will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel.
Ezra 5:1 - Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that [were] in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, [even] unto them.
Ezra 9:9 - For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Ezra 10:2 - And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
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.
Psalms 44:13 - Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 44:14 - Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psalms 79:4 - We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79:12 - And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Psalms 89:50 - Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;
Psalms 102:15 - So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
Isaiah 35:3 - Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Jeremiah 24:9 - And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
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.
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.
Lamentations 3:45 - Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Lamentations 3:51 - Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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.
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.
Micah 7:11 - [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall the decree be far removed.

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