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The priest kneels in tears between a plain porch and an altar, with other ministers behind him.
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Joel 2:17

Spare your people

Return with All Your Heart · Joel 2

Story guide: The priest kneels between the porch and altar with other ministers behind him. Their tears embody the plea that Yahweh spare his people and protect them from reproach among the nations.

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17Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the portico and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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