Joel 2:17

Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

Cross References (37)

  • Psalms 115:2 (9)

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

  • Ezekiel 8:16 (8)

    So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, betwe

  • Psalms 79:10 (8)

    Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the b

  • 1 Kings 6:3 (4)

    The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple

  • Matthew 23:35 (4)

    And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechar

  • Amos 7:2 (4)

    And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive,

  • Joel 1:9 (4)

    Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister

  • Hosea 14:2 (4)

    Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that w

  • Daniel 9:18–19 (4)

    Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are

  • Exodus 34:9 (4)

    “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-nec

  • Psalms 74:18–23 (3)

    Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

  • Ezekiel 20:9 (3)

    But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were livi

  • Deuteronomy 32:27 (3)

    if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;

  • Psalms 79:4 (3)

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

  • Ezekiel 36:4–7 (3)

    therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hil

  • Isaiah 37:20 (3)

    And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, a

  • Amos 7:5 (3)

    Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

  • Exodus 32:11–13 (3)

    But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You

  • Psalms 74:10 (3)

    How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

  • Isaiah 63:17–19 (3)

    Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your se

  • 2 Chronicles 8:12 (3)

    At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.

  • Psalms 44:10–14 (3)

    You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

  • Psalms 89:51 (3)

    how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

  • Psalms 89:41 (3)

    All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • Micah 7:10 (3)

    Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see

  • Psalms 42:10 (3)

    Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

  • Isaiah 64:9–12 (3)

    Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all You

  • Numbers 14:14–16 (3)

    And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of thi

  • Malachi 1:9 (3)

    “But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks th

  • Matthew 27:43 (3)

    He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

  • Nehemiah 9:36 (2)

    So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!

  • Psalms 42:3 (1)

    My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

  • 2 Chronicles 7:20 (1)

    then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctif

  • 1 Kings 9:7 (1)

    then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have s

  • Joel 1:13 (1)

    Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers

  • Deuteronomy 9:16–29 (1)

    And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside

  • Deuteronomy 28:37 (1)

    You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.