Joel 2:17

Tree of Life Version

Between the porch and the altar let the kohanim, ministers of Adonai, weep, and let them say: “Have pity, Adonai, on Your people. Don’t make Your heritage a scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’”

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The porch in front of the Sanctuary of the House was 20 cubits in length—corresponding to the breadth of the House—and its depth was ten cubits from the front of the House.

1 Kings 9:7

then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this House which I have consecrated for My Name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot them from My land which I gave them, and this House which I have consecrated for My Name I will cast out of My sight. I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 8:12

At that time, Solomon offered burnt offerings to Adonai on the altar of Adonai which he had built before the porch,

Nehemiah 9:36

“But see, even today we are slaves! Slaves in the land that You gave to our ancestors to eat of its fruit and its bounty. We are slaves in it.

Psalm 115:2

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

Psalm 42:10

I will say to God my Rock: “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning, under the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalm 42:11

As with a crushing in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, by saying to me all day, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:3

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and appear before God?

Psalm 42:4

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

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, will the adversary mock? Will the enemy revile Your Name forever?

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say: “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, let it be known among the nations that You avenge the shed blood of Your servants.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

Psalm 89:41

You have broken down all his walls. You reduced his strongholds to ruin.

Psalm 89:51

Remember, my Lord, the mockery against Your servants that I bear in my heart from so many peoples.

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found grace in Your eyes, my Lord, let my Lord please go within our midst, even though this is a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own inheritance.”

Isaiah 22:12

Now in that day, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will call for weeping and wailing, for baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Isaiah 37:20

Now, Adonai our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone are Adonai!”

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted, for the sake of My Name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations, where they were, in whose sight I made Myself known to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 8:16

So He brought me into the inner court of Adonai’s House. Behold, at the door of the Temple of Adonai, between the porch and the altar, were about 25 men, with their backs toward the Temple of Adonai and their faces toward the east—and they were bowing in worship eastward toward the sun.

Hosea 14:2

Return O Israel, to Adonai your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and weep, kohanim! Howl, ministers of the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night, ministers of my God. For grain and drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

Joel 1:9

Grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the House of Adonai. Kohanim—ministers of Adonai—mourn.

Amos 7:2

When the locust-swarm had finished devouring the vegetation of the land, I said: “Adonai Elohim, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?”

Amos 7:5

But I said: “My Lord Adonai, stop, please! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?”

Micah 7:10

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her— she who said to me: “Where is Adonai, your God?” My eyes will gaze at her— now she will be trampled like mud in streets.

Malachi 1:9

“So now, implore God’s favor! Then, will He be gracious to us? Since this has come from your hands, will He accept any of it from you?” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Numbers 25:6

Then behold, a man from Bnei-Yisrael came and brought a Midianite woman to his brothers before the eyes of Moses and of the whole assembly of Bnei-Yisrael, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting!

Matthew 23:35

And so, upon you shall come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Matthew 27:43

He trusts in God; let God rescue Him now, if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am Ben-Elohim.’”

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a horror, a proverb, and a byword—among all the peoples where Adonai will drive you.

Deuteronomy 32:27

except I dread the taunt of the enemy, lest their foes might misconstrue— lest they say, ‘Our hand is held high, and Adonai has not done all this.’

Joshua 7:9

For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great Name?”