Joel 2:17

New Century Version

The priests, the Lord’s servants, should cry between the altar and the entrance to the Temple. They should say, “Lord, have mercy on your people. Don’t let them be put to shame; don’t let other nations make fun of them. Don’t let people in other nations ask, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The porch in front of the main room of the Temple was fifteen feet deep and thirty feet wide. This room ran along the front of the Temple itself. Its width was equal to that of the Temple.

1 Kings 9:7

If you do, I will force Israel to leave the land I have given them, and I will leave this Temple that I have made holy. All the nations will make fun of Israel and speak evil about them.

2 Chronicles 7:20

If you do, I will take the Israelites out of my land, the land I have given them, and I will leave this Temple that I have made holy. All the nations will make fun of it and speak evil about it.

2 Chronicles 8:12

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar he had built for the Lord in front of the Temple porch.

Nehemiah 9:36

“Look, we are slaves today in the land you gave our ancestors. They were to enjoy its fruit and its good things, but look, we are slaves here.

Psalm 115:2

Why do the nations ask, “Where is their God?”

Psalm 42:10

My enemies’ insults make me feel as if my bones were broken. They are always saying, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:11

Why am I so sad? Why am I so upset? I should put my hope in God and keep praising him, my Savior and my God.

Psalm 42:3

Day and night, my tears have been my food. People are always saying, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

When I remember these things, I speak with a broken heart. I used to walk with the crowd and lead them to God’s Temple with songs of praise.

Psalm 74:10

God, how much longer will the enemy make fun of you? Will they insult you forever?

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Tell the other nations in our presence that you punish those who kill your servants.

Psalm 79:4

We are a joke to the other nations; they laugh and make fun of us.

Psalm 89:41

Everyone who passes by steals from him. His neighbors insult him.

Psalm 89:51

Lord, remember how your enemies insulted you and how they insulted your appointed king wherever he went.

Exodus 34:9

He said, “Lord, if you are pleased with me, please go with us. I know that these are stubborn people, but forgive our evil and our sin. Take us as your own people.”

Isaiah 22:12

The Lord God All-Powerful told the people to cry and be sad, to shave their heads and wear rough cloth.

Isaiah 37:20

Now, Lord our God, save us from the king’s power so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of my name so it would not be dishonored in full view of the nations where the Israelites lived. I made myself known to the Israelites with a promise to bring them out of Egypt while the nations were watching.

Ezekiel 8:16

Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the Temple. There I saw about twenty-five men at the entrance to the Temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar. With their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord, they faced east and were worshiping the sun in the east.

Hosea 14:2

Come back to the Lord and say these words to him: “Take away all our sin and kindly receive us, and we will keep the promises we made to you.

Joel 1:13

Priests, put on your rough cloth and cry to show your sadness. Servants of the altar, cry out loud. Servants of my God, keep your rough cloth on all night to show your sadness. Cry because there will be no more grain or drink offerings to offer in the Temple of your God.

Joel 1:9

There will be no more grain or drink offerings to offer in the Temple of the Lord. Because of this, the priests, the servants of the Lord, are sad.

Amos 7:2

When the locusts ate all the crops in the country, I said, “Lord God, forgive us. How could Israel live through this? It is too small already!”

Amos 7:5

Then I cried out, “Lord God, stop! How could Israel live through this? It is too small already.”

Micah 7:10

Then my enemies will see this, and they will be ashamed, those who said to me, ‘Where is the Lord your God?’ I will look down on them. They will get walked on, like mud in the street.”

Malachi 1:9

“Now ask God to be kind to you, but he won’t accept you with such offerings,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Numbers 25:6

Moses and the Israelites were gathered at the entrance to the Meeting Tent, crying there. Then an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman to his brothers in plain sight of Moses and all the people.

Matthew 23:35

So you will be guilty for the death of all the good people who have been killed on earth—from the murder of that good man Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berakiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Matthew 27:43

He trusts in God, so let God save him now, if God really wants him. He himself said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a hated thing to the nations where the Lord sends you; they will laugh at you and make fun of you.

Deuteronomy 32:27

But I didn’t want their enemy to brag; their enemy might misunderstand and say, ‘We have won! The Lord has done none of this.’ ”

Joshua 7:9

The Canaanites and all the other people in this country will hear about this and will surround and kill us all! Then what will you do for your own great name?”