TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in WEB.
Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel [prophesied they] to them.
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.