SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:17
Y les dije: Vosotros veis el mal en que estamos, que Jerusalén está desierta, y sus puertas consumidas del fuego; venid, y edifiquemos el muro de Jerusalén, y no seamos más en oprobio.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. Then said I unto them , etc.] The priests and princes of the Jews: you see the distress that we are in ; lie open to our enemies, and exposed to their insults: how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire , ( Nehemiah 1:3 2:3,13), come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach ; to their neighbours about them, who scoffed at them as a defenceless people and frequently came in upon them, and spoiled and plundered them of their goods and substance.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-18 - When Nehemiah had considered the matter, he told the Jews that God ha put it into his heart to build the wall of Jerusalem. He does no undertake to do it without them. By stirring up ourselves and on another to that which is good, we strengthen ourselves and one anothe for it. We are weak in our duty, when we are cold and careless.
Original Hebrew
ואומר 559 אלהם 413 אתם 859 ראים 7200 הרעה 7451 אשׁר 834 אנחנו 587 בה אשׁר 834 ירושׁלם 3389 חרבה 2717 ושׁעריה 8179 נצתו 3341 באשׁ 784 לכו 1980 ונבנה 1129 את 853 חומת 2346 ירושׁלם 3389 ולא 3808 נהיה 1961 עוד 5750 חרפה׃ 2781
