| Joel 2:17
| Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?
| Altar of holocausts. They turned towards the holy place, lying prostrate, 1 Esdras 10:1., and 2 Machabees 10:26. (Calmet) --- Hither the victim of expiation was brought, and the high priest confessed. (Maimonides) --- Over them, as they might easily have done during the famine.
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