Joel 2:17
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17 Between the vestibule and the altar,
let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep.
Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
and do not make your heritage a mockery,
a byword among the nations.
Why should it be said among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”(A)
Ezekiel 8:16
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16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.(A)
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Psalm 115:2
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2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”(A)
Psalm 79:10
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10 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes.(A)
Matthew 23:35
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35 so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
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Amos 7:2
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2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
“O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”(A)
Joel 1:9
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9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
The priests mourn,
the ministers of the Lord.(A)
Hosea 14:2
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2 Take words with you
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all guilt;
accept that which is good,
and we will offer
the fruit[a] of our lips.(A)
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- 14.2 Gk Syr: Heb bulls
Daniel 9:18-19
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18 Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.(A) 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”(B)
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1 Kings 6:3
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3 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits wide, across the width of the house. Its depth was ten cubits in front of the house.
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Exodus 34:9
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9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”(A)
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Amos 7:5
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5 Then I said,
“O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”(A)
Ezekiel 36:4-7
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4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;(A) 5 therefore thus says the Lord God: I am speaking in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who, with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, took my land as their possession, because of its pasture, to plunder it.(B) 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the watercourses and valleys: Thus says the Lord God: I am speaking in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the insults of the nations;(C) 7 therefore thus says the Lord God: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer insults.
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Ezekiel 20:9
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9 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.(A)
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Isaiah 64:9-12
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9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
and do not remember iniquity forever.
Now consider, we are all your people.(A)
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.(B)
11 Our holy and beautiful house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.(C)
12 After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord?
Will you keep silent and punish us so severely?(D)
Isaiah 63:17-19
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17 Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways
and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you?
Turn back for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your heritage.(A)
18 Your holy people took possession for a little while,
but now our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.(B)
19 We have long been like those whom you do not rule,
like those not called by your name.(C)
Isaiah 37:20
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20 So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”(A)
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Psalm 89:51
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51 with which your enemies taunt, O Lord,
with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.(A)
Psalm 89:41
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41 All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.(A)
Psalm 79:4
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4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.(A)
Psalm 74:18-23
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18 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and an impious people reviles your name.(A)
19 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.(B)
20 Have regard for your[a] covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.(C)
21 Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.(D)
22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.(E)
23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.(F)
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- 74.20 Gk Syr: Heb the
Psalm 74:10
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10 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?(A)
Psalm 42:10
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10 As with a deadly wound in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”(A)
2 Chronicles 8:12
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12 Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the vestibule,(A)
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