Psalms 115:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?””
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“Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Why do the nations say, `Where, pray, <FI>is<Fi> their God.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 115:2 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
- Numbers 14:15If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
- Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
- 2 Kings 19:10“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
- Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
- Psalms 79:10Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
- Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
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