Joel 2: 17

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JOEL

CHAPTER 2

17 Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, ^aweep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy ^bpeople, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to ^creproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

Footnotes

17a	Isa. 22: 12. 12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts ^acall to ^bweeping, and to mourning, and to ^cbaldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 2 Cor. 7: 10. 10 For ^agodly ^bsorrow worketh ^crepentance to ^dsalvation not to be repented of: but the ^esorrow of the world worketh death. James 4: 9 (8-10). 9 ^aBe afflicted, and mourn, and ^bweep: let your laughter be turned to ^cmourning, and your joy to heaviness.
b	Ex. 33: 13. 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found ^agrace in thy sight, ^bshew me now thy ^cway, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is ^dthy ^epeople.
c	Jer. 24: 9. 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a ^areproach and a proverb, a taunt and a ^bcurse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 1 Ne. 19: 14. 14 And because they turn their hearts aside, saith the prophet, and have ^adespised the Holy One of Israel, they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a ^bhiss and a ^cbyword, and be ^dhated among all nations. 3 Ne. 16: 9 (8-9). 9 And because of the mercies of the Father unto the Gentiles, and also the judgments of the Father upon my people who are of the house of Israel, verily, verily, I say unto you, that after all this, and I have caused my people who are of the house of Israel to be smitten, and to be afflicted, and to be ^aslain, and to be cast out from among them, and to become ^bhated by them, and to become a hiss and a byword among them— TG Reproach.