Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw
you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule,
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the Go
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities o
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women fr
But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right ey