Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.

Ye see

Lamentations 2:2,8,9 Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof. . . .

Lamentations 3:51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

come

Ezra 5:1,2 Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel. . . .

Ezra 10:2-4 And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this, . . .

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. . . .

a reproach

Nehemiah 1:3 And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach: and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.

1 Samuel 11:2 And Naas, the Ammonite, answered them: On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and make you a reproach in all Israel.

Psalm 44:13 Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.

Psalm 79:4,12 We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. . . .

Psalm 89:50,51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: . . .

Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.

Lamentations 3:45,46 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. . . .

Ezekiel 5:14 And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by.

Ezekiel 22:4,5 Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries. . . .