Nehemiah 2:17
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Decision to Restore the Walls
17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”(A)
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Ezekiel 5:14
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14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.(A)
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Nehemiah 1:3
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3 They replied, “The remnant there in the province who escaped captivity are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”(A)
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Psalm 79:4
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4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.(A)
Lamentations 3:51
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51 My eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the young women in my city.
Lamentations 3:45-46
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45 You have made us filth and rubbish
among the peoples.(A)
46 All our enemies
have opened their mouths against us;(B)
Isaiah 35:3-4
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3 Strengthen the weak hands
and make firm the feeble knees.(A)
4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Here is your God.
He will come with vengeance,
with terrible recompense.
He will come and save you.”(B)
Ezekiel 22:4-5
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4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed and defiled by the idols that you have made; you have brought your days near; the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a disgrace before the nations and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
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Lamentations 2:8-9
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8 The Lord determined to lay in ruins
the wall of daughter Zion;
he stretched the line;
he did not withhold his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to lament;
they languish together.(A)
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
he has ruined and broken her bars;
her king and princes are among the nations;
guidance is no more,
and her prophets obtain
no vision from the Lord.(B)
Psalm 89:50-51
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50 Remember, O Lord, how your servant is taunted,
how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,[a](A)
51 with which your enemies taunt, O Lord,
with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.(B)
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- 89.50 Cn: Heb bosom all of many peoples
Lamentations 2:2
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2 The Lord has destroyed without mercy
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has broken down
the strongholds of daughter Judah;
he has brought down to the ground in dishonor
the kingdom and its rulers.(A)
Jeremiah 24:9
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9 I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.(A)
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Psalm 79:12
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12 Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors
the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!(A)
Psalm 44:13
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13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the derision and scorn of those around us.(A)
Ezra 5:1-2
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Restoration of the Temple Resumed
5 Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo[a] prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.(A) 2 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak set out to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem, and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.(B)
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- 5.1 Gk: Aram adds the prophets
Ezra 10:2-4
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2 Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra, saying, “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.(A) 3 So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the law.(B) 4 Take action, for it is your duty, and we are with you; be strong, and do it.”(C)
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1 Samuel 11:2
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2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, namely, that I gouge out everyone’s right eye and thus put disgrace upon all Israel.”(A)
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