Joel 2:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

1 Kings 9:7

Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20

Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 8:12

Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

Nehemiah 9:36

Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

Psalm 115:2

Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

Psalm 42:10

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

Psalm 42:11

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

Psalm 42:4

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Psalm 74:10

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Psalm 79:10

Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.

Psalm 79:4

We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

Psalm 89:41

All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

Psalm 89:51

The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

Exodus 34:9

And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Isaiah 37:20

But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:9

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Joel 1:13

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

Joel 1:9

The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

Amos 7:2

And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

Amos 7:5

Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

Micah 7:10

And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

Malachi 1:9

And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.

Numbers 25:6

Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Matthew 23:35

Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.

Matthew 27:43

He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

Deuteronomy 32:27

But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

Joshua 7:9

For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?