Joel 2:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Between the vestibule and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep. Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits wide, across the width of the house. Its depth was ten cubits in front of the house.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will pluck you up from the land that I have given you, and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 8:12

Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the vestibule,

Nehemiah 9:36

Here we are, slaves to this day, slaves in the land that you gave to our ancestors to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts.

Psalm 115:2

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

Psalm 42:10

As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:11

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

Psalm 89:51

with which your enemies taunt, O Lord, with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Isaiah 37:20

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

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of 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 and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all guilt; accept that which is good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:9

The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord.

Amos 7:2

When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord God, forgive, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”

Amos 7:5

Then I said, “O Lord God, cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”

Micah 7:10

Then my enemies will see, and shame will cover those who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will see their downfall; now they will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Malachi 1:9

And now implore the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. The fault is yours. Will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 25:6

Just then one of the Israelites came and brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Matthew 23:35

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

Matthew 27:43

He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he wants to, for he said, ‘I am God’s Son.’ ”

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.

Deuteronomy 32:27

but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, “Our hand is triumphant; it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’

Joshua 7:9

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will you do for your great name?”