Joel 2:17

Free Bible Version

Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar of the Temple. Let them say, “Lord, please take pity on your people, and do not let your inheritance be disgraced, ruled over by foreign nations, so that the people of these nations could ask, ‘Where is their God?’”

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The entrance room at the front of the Temple was twenty cubits wide. It ran the whole width of the Temple and projected out ten cubits in front of the Temple.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel off from the land I have given them. I will banish from my presence this Temple I have dedicated to my honor, and I will make it an object lesson of ridicule among the nations.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will pull you up from the land I gave you. I will banish from my presence this Temple I have dedicated to my honor, and I will make it an object lesson of ridicule among the nations.

2 Chronicles 8:12

Then Solomon presented burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord he had built in front of the Temple's porch.

Nehemiah 9:36

Look at us now, slaves in the land you gave our forefathers to enjoy its fruit and all its good things. Look at us slaves here!

Psalm 115:2

Why should the heathen nations ask, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:10

The mocking of my attackers crushes my bones. They're always asking me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:11

Why am I so discouraged? Why do I feel so sad? I will hope in God; I will praise him because he is the one who saves me—my God!

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my only food, day and night, while people ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

I am crushed as I remember how I walked with the crowds, leading them in a procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and songs of thanks among the worshipers at the festival.

Psalm 74:10

How long will the enemy ridicule you, God? Will they insult your character forever?

Psalm 79:10

Why should the heathen nations be able to say, “Where is their God?” May they experience your punishment for shedding the blood of your servants, and may we see it.

Psalm 79:4

We have been made a mockery before our neighbors, ridiculed and laughed at by those around us.

Psalm 89:41

Everyone who passes by has robbed him; he has become an object of mockery to the nations nearby.

Psalm 89:51

Your enemies taunt me, Lord, mocking your king wherever he goes.

Exodus 34:9

He said, “Lord, if it's true that you're happy with me, please accompany us. Admittedly this is a rebellious people, but please forgive our guilt and sin. Accept us as specially belonging to you.”

Isaiah 22:12

At that time the Lord, the Lord Almighty, was calling you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.

Isaiah 37:20

Now, Lord our God, please save us from him, in order that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that only you, Lord, are God.”

Ezekiel 20:9

But I did act so I would not be misrepresented, so that I wouldn't lose respect in the eyes of the other nations living near them who had seen me reveal myself to Israel by leading them out of Egypt.

Ezekiel 8:16

He took me to the inner courtyard of the Lord's Temple and right there at the entrance to the Temple, between the porch and the altar, were around twenty-five men. They had their backs to the Temple, and were facing towards the east. They were bowing in worship of the sun rising in the east.

Hosea 14:2

Take words like these with you and come back to the Lord, saying to him, “Please take away all our guilt, accept what is good, and we will repay you with praise from our lips.

Joel 1:13

Dress in sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; weep, you who minister before the altar! Go and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple.

Joel 1:9

Grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple. The priests who minister before the Lord are in mourning.

Amos 7:2

And so when the locusts finished eating every green plant in the fields, I pleaded with the Lord God, “Please forgive your people! How can the descendants of Jacob survive? They are so weak.”

Amos 7:5

I pleaded with the Lord God, “Please stop! How can the descendants of Jacob survive? They are so weak.”

Micah 7:10

Then my enemies will see it and cover their faces in shame for taunting me, asking, “Where is the Lord your God?” With my own eyes I will see what happens to them; they will be trodden down like mud in the streets.

Malachi 1:9

So why don't you try being kind to God, begging him to be merciful to you? But when you bring such offerings, why should he show favor to you? asks the Lord Almighty.

Numbers 25:6

Right then an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman to his family tent in full view of Moses and all the Israelites as they were crying at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Matthew 23:35

As a result, you will be held accountable for the blood of all the good people that has been poured out on the land—from the blood of Abel, who did what was right, to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the Temple and the altar.

Matthew 27:43

He trusts God so confidently—well let God rescue him now if he wants him, because he claimed ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will be something that horrifies all the nations where you've been exiled by the Lord. They will laugh at you and ridicule you.

Deuteronomy 32:27

but I didn't want to hear their conquerors jeering, their enemies misunderstanding what had happened and saying, ‘We won all by ourselves, the Lord didn't have anything to do with it.’

Joshua 7:9

The Canaanites and everyone living in the land will come and surround us and wipe us out so completely that even our name will be forgotten. Then what will happen to your great reputation?”