• Joel 2:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 17 Between the porch and the altar+

      Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep and say:

      ‘Do feel pity, O Jehovah, for your people;

      Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,

      Letting the nations rule over them.

      Why should the peoples say, “Where is their God?”’+

  • Joel 2:17
    American Standard Version

    • 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Joel 2:17
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 17 Between the porch and the altar let the priests weep, the attendants of Yahweh,—And let them say—Look with pity, O Yahweh, upon thy people And do not deliver thine inheritance to reproach That the nations should mock them, Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Joel 2:17
    King James Version

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