Joe 2:17 | ESV | STEP | Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests , the ministers of the Lord , weep and say , Spare your people , O Lord , and make not your heritage a reproach , a byword among the nations . Why should they say among the peoples , Where is their God ?

‏ Joel 2:17

17 ^aBetween the ^bvestibule and the ^caltar
^dlet the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations. ^{▼▼Or reproach, that the nations should rule over them}
^fWhy should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”