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Joel 2:17

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?

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Joel 2:17

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?

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1 Nephi 17 — Bountiful, the Ship, and Nephi's Exodus Sermon
1 Nephi 22 — Nephi's Exposition — The Scattering, the Gentile Nursing, and the Mighty One of Israel
2 Nephi 23 — Isaiah 13 — The Burden of Babylon, the Day of the Lord, the Sanctified Ones
2 Nephi 24 — Isaiah 14 — Israel Restored, the Taunt-Song over Babylon's King, Lucifer Fallen from Heaven
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
2 Nephi 26 — Nephi's Vision Continued — The Nephite Destruction, the Whisper out of the Dust, and the Universal Invitation
2 Nephi 27 — Isaiah 29 Expanded — The Sealed Book, the Learned Man, the Three Witnesses, the Marvelous Work
2 Nephi 29 — A Bible! A Bible! — The Marvelous Work, the Two Records, and the Lord Speaks to All Nations
2 Nephi 30 — Gentile Covenant, Lamanite Delight, and the Millennial Earth — Nephi's Expansion of Isaiah 11
2 Nephi 31 — The Doctrine of Christ — Baptism, the Holy Ghost, and the Strait Way
2 Nephi 32 — Feast Upon the Words of Christ — Angels, the Holy Ghost, and the Doctrine of Pray Always
3 Nephi 8 — Darkness That Could Be Felt — The Destruction at the Death of Christ
3 Nephi 25 — The Sun of Righteousness With Healing in His Wings — The Burning Day and the Turning of Hearts
Alma 6 — Reordering the Church at Zarahemla — the Laying On of Hands, the Discipline of the Unrepentant, and the Journey to Gideon
Alma 9 — Have Ye Forgotten the Tradition of Your Fathers — Alma's Covenant Memory Sermon and the Doctrine That It Shall Be More Tolerable for the Lamanites
Alma 16 — The Desolation of Nehors — Ammonihah Destroyed in a Day, the Zoram Rescue at Sidon, and the Many Things That Looked Forth for the Coming of Christ
Alma 23 — They Never Did Fall Away — Seven Cities Converted, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies Named, and the Exceptions
Alma 24 — Rather Than Shed the Blood of Our Brethren — Weapons Buried Deep, 1,005 Slain Singing Praise, and the Convert Count That Exceeded the Body Count
Ether 14 — He Sweepeth the Earth Before Him — The Cursed Land, and a War Without Restraint
Helaman 7 — The Lament on the Tower — Nephi Pours Out His Soul
Helaman 11 — Rather Let There Be a Famine — The Prophet Who Stood Between
Mormon 2 — The Sorrowing of the Damned — Mormon Made a Captain at Sixteen, and a Grief That Was Not Repentance
Moroni 5 — In Remembrance of the Blood — The Sacrament Prayer on the Wine
Moroni 10 — Come unto Christ, and Be Perfected in Him — Moroni's Promise, and the Last Words of the Book of Mormon
Mosiah 3 — The Angel's Message — Jesus Christ Named, Blood from Every Pore, and the Natural Man
Mosiah 5 — The Covenant Response — One Voice, No More Disposition to Evil, Spiritually Begotten Sons and Daughters, the Name in the Heart
Mosiah 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin
Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored
Mosiah 21 — Limhi's Bondage Deepens — Three Defeats, Humbled to the Dust, the Lord Slow to Hear, and Many Desire Baptism but None Have Authority
Mosiah 22 — Gideon's Stratagem of Deliverance — Wine to the Guards, Departure by the Back Pass, the Lamanite Pursuit Lost in the Wilderness, and the Joining of Limhi's People to Mosiah-II in Zarahemla
Mosiah 24 — Burdens Made Light — Amulon's Authority, the Forbidden Prayer, the Voice of the Lord in Their Affliction, the Deep Sleep upon the Lamanites, and the Valley Named Alma
Mosiah 25 — The Great Gathering in Zarahemla — Three Records Read, the Mulekite Majority Numbered, Limhi's People Baptized by Alma, and Seven Churches Organized in the Land
Mosiah 27 — The Angel, the Three Days of Death-Like Sleep, and the Born-Again — Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah Converted, the Earth Trembling, the Soul Redeemed from the Gall of Bitterness
Mosiah 28 — The Sons of Mosiah Depart for the Lamanites — They Could Not Bear That Any Soul Should Perish, Mosiah Translates the Jaredite Plates by the Interpreters, the Office of the Seer Defined
Doctrine and Covenants 2 — The Promises Made to the Fathers
Doctrine and Covenants 3 — The Works of God Cannot Be Frustrated
Doctrine and Covenants 29 — The Great I AM
Doctrine and Covenants 34 — The Light Which Shineth in Darkness
Doctrine and Covenants 133 — Go Ye Out from Babylon
2 Kings 19 — The Letter Spread Before the LORD — Hezekiah's Sackcloth, the Prayer Between the Cherubims, the Remnant That Takes Root Downward, and the Angel in the Camp of Assyria
2 Kings 22 — I Have Found the Book — the Boy King Who Walked Straight, the Scroll Lost Inside the Temple, the Clothes Torn at the Reading, and Huldah's Oracle of the Tender Heart
2 Kings 23 — The Book That Remade a King — Josiah's Covenant at the Pillar, the Fire Through Every High Place, the Passover No Generation Had Seen, and the Chariot That Came Home from Megiddo
Esther 4 — For Such a Time as This — Sackcloth at the Gate, the Charge That Cannot Be Refused, and the Queen Who Chose to Perish

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Joel 2:17 in context.