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Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spareb thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should βrule over them: whereforec should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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Ex. 32:11‑12• ¹¹And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Why, Jehovah, doth thy wrath burn against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
¹²Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people! (Ex. 32:11‑12)

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or, use a byword against.

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Mic. 7:10• ¹⁰And mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets. (Mic. 7:10)

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the priests.

Joel 1:9,13• ⁹The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
¹³Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. (Joel 1:9,13)

between.

1 Kings 6:3• ³And the porch, in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, and ten cubits was its breadth, in front of the house. (1 Kings 6:3)

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2 Chron. 8:12• ¹²Then Solomon offered up burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch; (2 Chron. 8:12)

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Ezek. 8:16• ¹⁶And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house, and behold, at the entry of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. (Ezek. 8:16)

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Matt. 23:35• ³⁵so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (Matt. 23:35)

and let.

Hos. 14:2• ²Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips. (Hos. 14:2)

Spare.

Ex. 32:11‑13• ¹¹And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Why, Jehovah, doth thy wrath burn against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
¹²Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!
¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall possess it for ever! (Ex. 32:11‑13)

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Ex. 34:9• ⁹and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance! (Ex. 34:9)

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Deut. 9:16‑29• ¹⁶And I saw, and behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God: ye had made for yourselves a molten calf; ye had quickly turned aside from the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
¹⁷And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
¹⁸And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights,--I ate no bread and drank no water,--because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁹For I was afraid of the anger and fury wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. And Jehovah listened unto me also at that time.
²⁰And with Aaron Jehovah was very angry to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
²¹And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain.
²²And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
²³And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you, ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
²⁴Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.
²⁵So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
²⁶I prayed therefore to Jehovah, and said, Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a powerful hand.
²⁷Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin;
²⁸lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he had promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
²⁹They are indeed thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy great power and with thy stretched-out arm. (Deut. 9:16‑29)

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Isa. 37:20• ²⁰And now, Jehovah our God, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah, thou only. (Isa. 37:20)

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Isa. 64:9‑12• ⁹Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
¹⁰Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste.
¹²Wilt thou restrain thyself in presence of these things, Jehovah? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? (Isa. 64:9‑12)

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Dan. 9:18‑19• ¹⁸Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.
¹⁹Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. (Dan. 9:18‑19)

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Amos 7:2,5• ²And it came to pass, when they had wholly eaten the grass of the land, that I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
⁵Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small. (Amos 7:2,5)

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Mal. 1:9• ⁹And now, I pray you, beseech *God that he will be gracious unto us. This hath been of your hand: will he accept any of your persons? saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 1:9)

and give.

Psa. 44:10‑14• ¹⁰Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;
¹¹Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;
¹²Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;
¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. (Psa. 44:10‑14)

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Psa. 74:10,18‑23• ¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
¹⁸Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
¹⁹Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
²⁰Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
²¹Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
²²Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
²³Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. (Psa. 74:10,18‑23)

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Psa. 79:4• ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:4)

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Psa. 89:41,51• ⁴¹All that pass by the way plunder him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
⁵¹Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. (Psa. 89:41,51)

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Ezek. 36:4‑7• ⁴therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and a derision to the remnant of the nations that are round about,
⁵--therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the remnant of the nations, and against the whole of Edom, which have appointed my land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to plunder it by pillage.
⁶Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the ignominy of the nations;
⁷therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up my hand, saying, Verily the nations that are about you, they shall bear their shame. (Ezek. 36:4‑7)

that.

Neh. 9:36• ³⁶Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it. (Neh. 9:36)

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Isa. 63:17‑19• ¹⁷Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
¹⁸Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
¹⁹We have become like those over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name. (Isa. 63:17‑19)

rule over them.

or, use a byword against them.

Deut. 28:37• ³⁷And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee. (Deut. 28:37)

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1 Kings 9:7• ⁷then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples; (1 Kings 9:7)

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2 Chron. 7:20• ²⁰then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. (2 Chron. 7:20)

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Psa. 44:14• ¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. (Psa. 44:14)

wherefore.

Num. 14:14‑16• ¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
¹⁵if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
¹⁶Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness. (Num. 14:14‑16)

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Deut. 32:27• ²⁷If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this. (Deut. 32:27)

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Psa. 42:10• ¹⁰As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:10)

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Psa. 79:10• ¹⁰Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight. (Psa. 79:10)

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Psa. 115:2• ²Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God? (Psa. 115:2)

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Ezek. 20:9• ⁹But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were, in whose sight I had made myself known unto them in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. (Ezek. 20:9)

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Mic. 7:10• ¹⁰And mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets. (Mic. 7:10)

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Matt. 27:43• ⁴³He trusted upon God; let him save him now if he will have him. For he said, I am Son of God. (Matt. 27:43)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they should be a byword of the nationsh. Wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "that the nations should rule over them."