Psalms 115:2

In 11 translations

BSB

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

KJV

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

WEB

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

ASV

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?

LSV

Why do the nations say, “Where, pray, [is] their God?”

YLT

Why do the nations say, 'Where, pray, [is] their God.

DBY

Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God?Elohim

DRC113:10

For thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake: lest the gentiles should say: Where is their God?

GNV

Wherefore shall the heathen say, Where is nowe their God?

JPS

Wherefore should the nations say: 'Where is now their God?'

LXXE113:10

lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?

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WLC

לָ֭מָּה יֹאמְר֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֑ם אַיֵּה־נָ֝֗א אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

LXX-Br113:10

μή ποτε εἴπωσι τὰ ἔθνη, ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς αὐτῶν;

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• Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your 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.
• Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
• 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 14:15–16If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say, ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
• Deuteronomy 32:26–27I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind, if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was…
• 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…
• 2 Kings 19:10–19“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. Surely you have heard what the…

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