Reinforce ¹  these commands, ²  so that they will be beyond reproach.

He will be beaten and despised, ¹  and his reproach will not be wiped away; ² 

When a wicked person ¹  arrives, contempt ²  shows up with him, and with shame comes ³  a reproach.

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I ¹  would be discredited. ² 

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience ¹  will not reproach me for as long as I live. ² 

The overseer ¹  then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, ²  temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable ¹  adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!” ² 

Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”

Then I ¹  said, “The thing that you are doing is wrong! ²  Should you not conduct yourselves ³  in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?

I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. ¹  That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them. ²