There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the LORD.

Put on sackcloth and weep, you priests who serve at the altar! Go into the Temple and mourn all night! There is no grain or wine to offer your God.

The entrance room was 15 feet deep and 30 feet wide, as wide as the sanctuary itself.

Solomon offered sacrifices to the LORD on the altar which he had built in front of the Temple.

So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They had turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.

As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Return to the LORD, and let this prayer be your offering to him: "Forgive all our sins and accept our prayer, and we will praise you as we have promised.

But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God and said, " LORD, why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power?

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise you made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession forever."

He said, "Lord, if you really are pleased with me, I ask you to go with us. These people are stubborn, but forgive our evil and our sin, and accept us as your own people."

I saw that you had already disobeyed the command that the LORD your God had given you, and that you had sinned against him by making yourselves a metal idol in the form of a bull-calf.

Then once again I lay face downward in the LORD's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the LORD and had made him angry.

The LORD was also angry enough with Aaron to kill him, so I prayed for Aaron at the same time.

"You also made the LORD your God angry when you were at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah.

Ever since I have known you, you have rebelled against the LORD.

And I prayed, 'Sovereign LORD, don't destroy your own people, the people you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your great strength and power.

Otherwise, the Egyptians will say that you were unable to take your people into the land that you had promised them. They will say that you took your people out into the desert to kill them, because you hated them.

Now, LORD our God, rescue us from the Assyrians, so that all the nations of the world will know that you alone are God."

so do not be too angry with us or hold our sins against us forever. We are your people; be merciful to us.

and our Temple, the sacred and beautiful place where our ancestors praised you, has been destroyed by fire. All the places we loved are in ruins.

Listen to us, O God; look at us and see the trouble we are in and the suffering of the city that bears your name. We are praying to you because you are merciful, not because we have done right.

Lord, hear us. Lord, forgive us. Lord, listen to us, and act! In order that everyone will know that you are God, do not delay! This city and these people are yours."

In my vision I saw the locusts eat up every green thing in the land, and then I said, "Sovereign LORD, forgive your people! How can they survive? They are so small and weak!"

Then I said, "Stop, O Sovereign LORD! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!"

Now, you priests, try asking God to be good to us. He will not answer your prayer, and it will be your fault.

You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.

You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value.

You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.

How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you? Will they insult your name forever?

But remember, O LORD, that your enemies laugh at you, that they are godless and despise you.

Remember the covenant you made with us. There is violence in every dark corner of the land.

Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.

The surrounding nations insult us; they laugh at us and mock us.

All who pass by steal his belongings; all his neighbors laugh at him.

Your enemies insult your chosen king, O LORD! They insult him wherever he goes.

So now listen to what I, the Sovereign LORD, say to you mountains and hills, to you brooks and valleys, to you places that were left in ruins, and to you deserted cities which were plundered and mocked by all the surrounding nations.

"So prophesy to the land of Israel; tell the mountains, hills, brooks, and valleys what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying in jealous anger because of the way the nations have insulted and humiliated them.

And now we are slaves in the land that you gave us, this fertile land which gives us food.

Why do you let us stray from your ways? Why do you make us so stubborn that we turn away from you? Come back, for the sake of those who serve you, for the sake of the people who have always been yours.

You treat us as though you had never been our ruler, as though we had never been your people.

In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.

then I will remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them. I will also abandon this Temple which I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshiped. People everywhere will ridicule Israel and treat her with contempt.

then I will remove you from the land that I gave you, and I will abandon this Temple that I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshiped. People everywhere will ridicule it and treat it with contempt.

You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.

they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, LORD, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

that you killed your people in the wilderness because you were not able to bring them into the land you promised to give them.

But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'

I am crushed by their insults, as they keep on asking me, "Where is your God?"

Why should the nations ask us, "Where is your God?" Let us see you punish the nations for shedding the blood of your servants.

Why should the nations ask us, "Where is your God?"

But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name, for in the presence of the people among whom they were living I had announced to Israel that I was going to lead them out of Egypt.

Then our enemies will see this and be disgraced---the same enemies who taunted us by asking, "Where is the LORD your God?" We will see them defeated, trampled down like mud in the streets.

He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!"