Nehemiah 1:3

Nehemiah's Prayer For The People

² In the month of Chislev, while I was in Shushan at the palace, Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with some men from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, about those who had survived the Babylonian captivity, and about Jerusalem. ³ They told me, "The survivors of the captivity there in the province are living in great distress and shame. Furthermore, the Jerusalem wall remains broken down and its gates have been burned by fire." ⁴ When I heard this, I sat down and cried, mourning for a number of days while I fasted and prayed in the presence of the God of Heaven.

In Great Distress

Walls of Jerusalem

Destroyed By Fire

Great Distress

Jerusalem

Nehemiah 2:17

Later I told them, "You all are watching the predicament we're in, how Jerusalem lies desolate, with its gates burned by fire. Let's rebuild the Jerusalem wall so we're no longer a disgrace."

2 Kings 25:10

The Chaldean army that accompanied the captain of the guard demolished the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:3

Then I was filled with fear. I replied to the king, "May the king live forever. Why shouldn't I be troubled, since the city where my ancestral sepulchers are located lies waste, with its gates burned by fire?"

Nehemiah 2:13

So I went out during the night through the Valley Gate toward Dragon's Well, and from there to the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and burned by fire.

Nehemiah 7:6

I found a register of the original inhabitants in which there was recorded a list of descendants of the province of Judah who returned from captivity, from those who had been exiled by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. They had come back to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his town.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will eliminate Israel from the land that I gave them and from the Temple that I've consecrated for my name. I will throw them out of my sight, and Israel will become the butt of jokes and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!

Ezra 2:1

Here is a list of descendants of the province of Judah who returned from the captivity, from those who had been exiled. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken them to Babylon. They came back to Jerusalem and Judah, each one to his town,

Ezra 5:8

This is to inform the king that we traveled to the Temple of the great God in the Judean province, which is being built with large stones and reinforced with wooden beams in its walls. The work proceeds diligently and is in capable hands.

Nehemiah 9:36-37

"Look! Today we are your servants, along with the land that you gave to our ancestors, so they could enjoy its fruit and its value behold, in it we are your servants!

Nehemiah 11:3

These are the leaders of the provinces who lived in Jerusalem. Some lived in the towns of Judah each on their property in their respective towns that is, the Israelis, the priests, the descendants of Levi, the Temple Servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants.

Esther 1:1

This is a record of what happened during the reign of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who ruled over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

Psalm 44:11-14

You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

Psalm 137:1-3

There we sat down and cried by the rivers of Babylon as we remembered Zion.

Isaiah 5:5

"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 32:9-14

"As for you ladies of leisure Get up and listen to my voice! You daughters who feel so complacent hear what I have to say!

Isaiah 43:28

So I'll disgrace the leaders of the Temple, and I'll consign Jacob to total destruction and Israel to contempt.

Isaiah 64:10-11

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 5:10

"Go through her rows of vines and destroy them, but don't completely destroy them. Strip away her branches, because they aren't the LORD's.

Jeremiah 24:9

I'll make them into a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth; into a cause for contempt, into a byword, into a taunt, and into a curse in all the places to which I drive them.

Jeremiah 29:18

I'll pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague, and I'll make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. I'll make them a curse, an object of horror, and scorn, and a desolation in all the nations to which I've driven them,

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans burned the palace and the houses of the people with fire, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 42:18

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, ridicule, and scorn, and you will never again see this place.'

Jeremiah 44:8-12

And why have you provoked me to anger by the works of your hands, by offering sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to settle so that you cut yourselves off and become an object of ridicule and scorn among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 52:14

All the Chaldean troops who were with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.

Lamentations 3:61

LORD, you listened to their insults all their plots against me,

Lamentations 5:1

LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!