Joel 2:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Between the porch and the altar let the priests weep, let the ministers of the Lord weep and say: “Spare your people, Lord! do not let your heritage become a disgrace, a byword among the nations! Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” The Lord Relents.

Cross References

Ezekiel 8:16

Then he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. There at the door of the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces toward the east; they were bowing eastward to the sun.

Psalm 115:2

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes make known to the nations that you avenge the blood of your servants which has been poured out.

Matthew 23:35

so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood shed upon earth, from the righteous blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Amos 7:2

When they had finished eating the grass in the land, I said: Forgive, O Lord God! Who will raise up Jacob? He is so small!

Joel 1:9

Grain offering and libation are cut off from the house of the Lord; In mourning are the priests, the ministers of the Lord.

Hosea 14:2

Return, Israel, to the Lord, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

1 Kings 6:3

The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits from side to side along the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, “If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.” Religious Laws.

Micah 7:10

When my enemy sees this, shame shall cover her: She who said to me, “Where is the Lord, your God?” My eyes shall see her downfall; now she will be trampled underfoot, like mud in the streets.

Amos 7:5

Then I said: Cease, O Lord God! Who will raise up Jacob? He is so small!

Ezekiel 20:9

I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations among whom they were: in the eyes of the nations I had made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 37:20

Therefore, Lord, our God, save us from this man’s power, That all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.”

Psalm 89:51

Remember, Lord, the insults to your servants, how I have borne in my bosom the slander of the nations.

Psalm 89:41

You broke down all city walls, left his strongholds in ruins.

Psalm 79:4

We have become the reproach of our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, will the enemy jeer? Will the enemy revile your name forever?

Psalm 42:10

I will say to God, my rock: “Why do you forget me? Why must I go about mourning with the enemy oppressing me?”

2 Chronicles 8:12

In those times Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the porch,

Deuteronomy 32:27

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, that their foes might misunderstand, And say, “Our own hand won the victory; the Lord had nothing to do with any of it.”

Matthew 27:43

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Malachi 1:9

So now implore God’s favor, that he may have mercy on us! You are the ones who have done this; Will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.

Nehemiah 9:36

Today we are slaves! As for the land which you gave our ancestors That they might eat its fruits and good things— see, we have become slaves upon it!

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Psalm 42:3

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God?

2 Chronicles 7:20

I will uproot the people from the land I gave and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. I will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

1 Kings 9:7

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations,

Deuteronomy 28:37

and you will be a horror, a byword, a taunt among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you. Fruitless Labors.

Numbers 25:6

At this a certain Israelite came and brought in a Midianite woman to his kindred in the view of Moses and of the whole Israelite community, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and the other inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will close in around us and efface our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

Psalm 42:4

My tears have been my bread day and night, as they ask me every day, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:11

It shatters my bones, when my adversaries reproach me, when they say to me every day: “Where is your God?”