Joel 2:17

The priests are to weep before the altar and plead that God spare His people and not let the nations mock. Their prayer appeals to God's honor among the nations.

Cross-references · 37

• Ps 115:2Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”
• Ps 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
• Ezek 8:16He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.
• Dan 9:18–19My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
• Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
• Joel 1:9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
• Matt 23:35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
• Amos 7:2When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
• Exod 34:9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
• 1 Kgs 6:3The 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.
• Matt 27:43He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
• Exod 32:11–13Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
• Deut 32:27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”
• 2 Chr 8:12Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on Yahweh’s altar, which he had built before the porch,
• Isa 37:20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
• Isa 63:17–19O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
• Isa 64:9–12Don’t be furious, Yahweh, and don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
• Ps 44:10–14You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
• Ps 89:51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
• Ps 74:18–23Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
• Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
• Ps 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
• Ps 89:41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
• Num 14:14–16They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the middle of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
• Amos 7:5Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
• Ezek 36:4–7therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
• Ezek 20:9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• Mic 7:10Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
• Mal 1:9“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
• Neh 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.
• Deut 9:16–29I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
• Joel 1:13Put 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.
• Deut 28:37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
• 2 Chr 7:20then 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 among all peoples.
• Ps 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
• 1 Kgs 9:7then 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 among all peoples.

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