Joel 2:17

New American Standard Bible 2020

Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, Weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, “Spare Your people, Lord, And do not make Your inheritance a disgrace, With the nations jeering at them. Why should those among the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The porch in front of the main room of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding to the width of the house, and its width along the front of the house was ten cubits.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel off from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will expel from My sight. So Israel will become a saying and an object of derision among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight; and I will make it a proverb and an object of scorn among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 8:12

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the porch;

Nehemiah 9:36

“Behold, we are slaves today, And as for the land which You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, Behold, we are slaves on it.

Psalm 115:2

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

Psalm 42:10

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:11

Why are you in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me? Wait for God, for I will again praise Him For the help of His presence, my God.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

I remember these things and pour out my soul within me. For I used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God, With a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.

Psalm 74:10

How long, God, will the enemy taunt You? Shall the enemy treat Your name disrespectfully forever?

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed Be known among the nations in our sight.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a disgrace before our neighbors, An object of derision and ridicule to those around us.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.

Psalm 89:51

With which Your enemies have taunted, Lord, With which they have taunted the footsteps of Your anointed.

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, “If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though the people are so obstinate, and pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us as Your own possession.”

Isaiah 22:12

¶Therefore on that day the Lord God of armies called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth.

Isaiah 37:20

But now Lord, our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord, are God.”

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it would not be defiled in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 8:16

Then He brought me into the inner courtyard of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord while their faces were toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all guilt And receive us graciously, So that we may present the fruit of our lips.

Joel 1:13

¶Put on sackcloth And mourn, you priests; Wail, you ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, You ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Have been withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:9

The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off From the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, The ministers of the Lord.

Amos 7:2

And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, “Lord God, please pardon! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Amos 7:5

Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Micah 7:10

Then my enemy will see, And shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look at her; At that time she will be trampled down Like mud of the streets.

Malachi 1:9

“But now, do indeed plead for God’s favor, so that He will be gracious to us. With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you kindly?” says the Lord of armies.

Numbers 25:6

Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 27:43

He has trusted in God; let God rescue Him now, if He takes pleasure in Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you will become an object of horror, a song of mockery, and an object of taunting among all the peoples where the Lord drives you.

Deuteronomy 32:27

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant, And the Lord has not performed all this.” ’

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear about it, and they will surround us and eliminate our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”