Psalm 115:2 “Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?””

Psalm 115:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

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Cross references

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

Psalm 42:3 Psalm 79:10 Psalm 42:10 Exodus 32:12 Joel 2:17 2 Kings 19:10–19

Psalm 42:3 · BSB

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 79:10 · BSB

Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

Psalm 42:10 · BSB

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Exodus 32:12 · BSB

Why 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.

Joel 2:17 · BSB

Let 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…

2 Kings 19:10–19 · BSB

“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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.

3Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.

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