17Then 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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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.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. …
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.
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-20)We are here told, I. Now Nehemiah was dismissed by the court he was sent from. The king appointed captains of the army and horsemen to go with him (Neh. 2:9), both for his guard and to show that he was a man whom the king did delight to honour , that all the king’s servants might respect him accordingly. Those whom the King of kings sends he thus protects, he thus dignifies with a host of angels t…
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