17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire.(A) Come, let us rebuild the wall(B) of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.(C)

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17 Then 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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17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies [a]waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be (A)a reproach.”

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  1. Nehemiah 2:17 desolate

How long will you assault me?
    Would all of you throw me down—
    this leaning wall,(A) this tottering fence?

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How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

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How long will you attack a man?
You shall be slain, all of you,
(A)Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.

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12 Why have you broken down its walls(A)
    so that all who pass by pick its grapes?

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12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

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12 Why have You (A)broken down her [a]hedges,
So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 80:12 walls or fences