Joel 2:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

Between the vestibule and the altar, the priests, the ministers of the Lord, will weep, and they will say: "Spare, O Lord, spare your people. And do not bequeath your inheritance into disgrace, so that the nations would rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?' "

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

And a portico was before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, in accord with the measure of the width of the temple. And it had ten cubits of width before the face of the temple.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will take away Israel from the face of the land, which I have given to them. And the temple, which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out from my sight. And Israel will be a proverb and a parable among all the peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20

I will uproot you from my land, which I gave to you, and from this house, which I sanctified to my name, and I will cast it away from before my face, and I will deliver it to be a parable and an example for all the peoples.

2 Chronicles 8:12

Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had constructed before the portico,

Nehemiah 9:36

Behold, we ourselves this day are servants. And the land, which you gave to our fathers so that they might eat its bread and have its good things, we ourselves are servants within it.

Psalm 115:2

I said in my excess, "Every man is a liar."

Psalm 42:3

Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.

Psalm 42:4

And I will enter, up to the altar of God, to God who enlivens my youthfulness. To you, O God, my God, I will confess upon a stringed instrument.

Psalm 74:10

But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 79:10

You were the leader of the journey in its sight. You planted its roots, and it filled the earth.

Psalm 79:4

Convert us, O God. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

Exodus 34:9

he said: "If I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, I beg you to walk with us, (for the people are stiff-necked) and take away our iniquities and our sin, and so possess us."

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.

Isaiah 37:20

And now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand. And let all the kingdoms of the earth acknowledge that you alone are Lord."

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be violated in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I appeared to them, so that I might lead them away from the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he led me into the inner atrium of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the vestibule and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east. And they were adoring toward the rising of the Sun.

Hosea 14:2

Israel, convert to the Lord your God. For you have been ruined by your own iniquity.

Joel 1:13

Priests, gird yourselves and lament. Ministers of the altars, wail. Enter, ministers of my God, lie in sackcloth. For sacrifice and libation have passed away from the house of your God.

Joel 1:9

Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.

Amos 7:2

And it happened, when they had finally eaten all the grass in the land, that I said, "Lord God, be gracious, I beg you. Who will raise up Jacob, for he is little?"

Amos 7:5

And I said, "Lord God, cease, I beg you. Who will raise up Jacob, for he is little?"

Micah 7:10

And my enemy will look, and she will be covered with confusion, she who says to me, "Where is the Lord your God?" My eyes will look upon her. Now she will be trampled under foot like the mud of the streets.

Malachi 1:9

And now, beseech the face of God, so that he may have mercy on you (for by your hand has this been done) if, in any way, he might accept your faces, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 25:6

And behold, one of the sons of Israel entered, in the sight of his brothers, to a prostitute of Midian, within view of Moses and of all the crowd of the sons of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you may fall all the blood of the just, which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 27:43

He trusted in God; so now, let God free him, if he wills him. For he said, 'I am the Son of God.' "

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.

Deuteronomy 32:27

But because of the wrath of the enemies, I have delayed it. Otherwise, perhaps their enemies would be arrogant and would say: "Our exalted hand, and not the Lord, has done all these things."

Joshua 7:9

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and coming together as one, they will surround us, and they will wipe our name from the earth. And what will you do concerning your great name?"