Joel 2:17 Cross References

Joel 2:17

17: The priests, who minister in the LORD's presence, will stand between the people and the altar, weeping. Let them pray, "Spare your people, LORD! They belong to you, so don't let them become an object of mockery. Don't let their name become a proverb of unbelieving foreigners who say, `Where is the God of Israel? He must be helpless!'"

Ezekiel 8:16

  1. Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the LORD's Temple. At the entrance, between the foyer and the bronze altar, about twenty-five men were standing with their backs to the LORD's Temple. They were facing eastward, worshiping the sun!

Psalms 79:10

  1. Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff, asking, "Where is their God?" Show us your vengeance against the nations, for they have spilled the blood of your servants.

Psalms 115:2

  1. Why let the nations say, "Where is their God?"

1 Kings 6:3

  1. The foyer at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple. It projected outward 15 feet from the front of the Temple.

Joel 1:9

  1. There is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the LORD. The priests are mourning because there are no offerings. Listen to the weeping of these ministers of the LORD!

Amos 7:5

  1. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, please don't do it. Unless you relent, Israel will not survive, for we are only a small nation."

Exodus 34:9

  1. And he said, "If it is true that I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, then please go with us. Yes, this is an unruly and stubborn people, but please pardon our iniquity and our sins. Accept us as your own special possession."

Matthew 23:35

  1. As a result, you will become guilty of murdering all the godly people from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.

Numbers 14:14

  1. They will tell this to the inhabitants of this land, who are well aware that you are with this people. They know, LORD, that you have appeared in full view of your people in the pillar of cloud that hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
  2. Now if you slaughter all these people, the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
  3. `The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness.'

Micah 7:10

  1. Then my enemies will see that the LORD is on my side. They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying, "Where is the LORD--that God of yours?" With my own eyes I will see them trampled down like mud in the streets.

Psalms 42:10

  1. Their taunts pierce me like a fatal wound. They scoff, "Where is this God of yours?"

Amos 7:2

  1. In my vision the locusts ate everything in sight that was green. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, please forgive your people! Unless you relent, Israel will not survive, for we are only a small nation."

2 Chronicles 8:12

  1. Then Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar he had built in front of the foyer of the Temple.

Psalms 74:10

  1. How long, O God, will you allow our enemies to mock you? Will you let them dishonor your name forever?

Isaiah 37:20

  1. Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God."

Malachi 1:9

  1. "Go ahead, beg God to be merciful to you! But when you bring that kind of offering, why should he show you any favor at all?" asks the LORD Almighty.

Psalms 89:51

  1. Your enemies have mocked me, O LORD; they mock the one you anointed as king.

Deuteronomy 9:16

  1. There below me I could see the gold calf you had made in your terrible sin against the LORD your God. How quickly you had turned from the path the LORD had commanded you to follow!
  2. So I raised the stone tablets and dashed them to the ground. I smashed them before your very eyes.
  3. Then for forty days and nights I lay prostrate before the LORD, neither eating bread nor drinking water. I did this because you had sinned by doing what the LORD hated, thus making him very angry.
  4. How I feared for you, for the LORD was ready to destroy you. But again he listened to me.
  5. The LORD was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron, and the LORD spared him.

Psalms 74:18

  1. See how these enemies scoff at you, LORD. A foolish nation has dishonored your name.
  2. Don't let these wild beasts destroy your doves. Don't forget your afflicted people forever.
  3. Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence!
  4. Don't let the downtrodden be constantly disgraced! Instead, let these poor and needy ones give praise to your name.
  5. Arise, O God, and defend your cause. Remember how these fools insult you all day long.

Ezekiel 20:9

  1. But I didn't do it, for I acted to protect the honor of my name. That way the surrounding nations wouldn't be able to laugh at Israel's God, who had promised to deliver his people.

Daniel 9:18

  1. "O my God, listen to me and hear my request. Open your eyes and see our wretchedness. See how your city lies in ruins--for everyone knows that it is yours. We do not ask because we deserve help, but because you are so merciful.
  2. "O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, O my God, do not delay, for your people and your city bear your name."

Exodus 32:11

  1. But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God not to do it. "O LORD!" he exclaimed. "Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and mighty acts?
  2. The Egyptians will say, `God tricked them into coming to the mountains so he could kill them and wipe them from the face of the earth.' Turn away from your fierce anger. Change your mind about this terrible disaster you are planning against your people!
  3. Remember your covenant with your servants--Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You swore by your own self, `I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. Yes, I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.'"

Deuteronomy 28:37

  1. You will become an object of horror, a proverb and a mockery among all the nations to which the LORD sends you.

Isaiah 63:17

  1. LORD, why have you allowed us to turn from your path? Why have you given us stubborn hearts so we no longer fear you? Return and help us, for we are your servants and your special possession.
  2. How briefly your holy people possessed the holy place, and now our enemies have destroyed it.
  3. LORD, why do you treat us as though we never belonged to you? Why do you act as though we had never been known as your people?

2 Chronicles 7:20

  1. then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land of mine that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have set apart to honor my name. I will make it a spectacle of contempt among the nations.

1 Kings 9:7

  1. then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have set apart to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.

Matthew 27:43

  1. He trusted God--let God show his approval by delivering him! For he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

Psalms 79:4

  1. We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us.

Isaiah 64:9

  1. Oh, don't be so angry with us, LORD. Please don't remember our sins forever. Look at us, we pray, and see that we are all your people.
  2. Your holy cities are destroyed; even Jerusalem is a desolate wilderness.
  3. The holy, beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed.
  4. After all this, LORD, must you still refuse to help us? Will you continue to be silent and punish us?

Joel 1:13

  1. Dress yourselves in sackcloth, you priests! Wail, you who serve before the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! There is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of your God.

Psalms 44:10

  1. You make us retreat from our enemies and allow them to plunder our land.
  2. You have treated us like sheep waiting to be slaughtered; you have scattered us among the nations.
  3. You sold us--your precious people--for a pittance. You valued us at nothing at all.
  4. You have caused all our neighbors to mock us. We are an object of scorn and derision to the nations around us.
  5. You have made us the butt of their jokes; we are scorned by the whole world.

Psalms 42:3

  1. Day and night, I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, "Where is this God of yours?"

Hosea 14:2

  1. Bring your petitions, and return to the LORD. Say to him, "Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you the sacrifice of praise.

Psalms 89:41

  1. Everyone who comes along has robbed him while his neighbors mock.

Ezekiel 36:4

  1. Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. He speaks to the hills and mountains, ravines and valleys, and to ruined wastes and long-deserted cities that have been destroyed and mocked by foreign nations everywhere.
  2. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My jealous anger is on fire against these nations, especially Edom, because they have shown utter contempt for me by gleefully taking my land for themselves as plunder.
  3. "Therefore, prophesy to the hills and mountains, the ravines and valleys of Israel. Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am full of fury because you have suffered shame before the surrounding nations.
  4. Therefore, says the Sovereign LORD, I have raised my hand and sworn an oath that those nations will soon have their turn at suffering shame.

Deuteronomy 32:27

  1. But I feared the taunt of the enemy, that their adversaries might misunderstand and say, "Our power has triumphed! It was not the LORD who did this!"'

Nehemiah 9:36

  1. "So now today we are slaves here in the land of plenty that you gave to our ancestors! We are slaves among all this abundance!
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