Joel 2:17

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say amongst the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples.

2 Chronicles 8:12

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD’s altar which he had built before the porch,

Nehemiah 9:36

“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

Psalm 115:2

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

Psalm 42:10

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:11

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 42:3

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

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Psalm 74:10

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known amongst the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbours.

Psalm 89:51

With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favour in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go amongst us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Isaiah 22:12

In that day, the Lord, GOD of Hosts, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Isaiah 37:20

Now therefore, LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD, even you only.”

Ezekiel 20:9

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations amongst which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 8:16

He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house; and I saw at the door of the LORD’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs towards the LORD’s temple and their faces towards the east. They were worshipping the sun towards the east.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

Joel 1:9

The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

Amos 7:2

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Amos 7:5

Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Micah 7:10

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Malachi 1:9

“Now, please entreat the favour of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says the LORD of Hosts.

Numbers 25:6

Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Matthew 23:35

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

Matthew 27:43

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword amongst all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.

Deuteronomy 32:27

were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted; the LORD has not done all this.’”

Joshua 7:9

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