Psalms 115:2

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

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  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
  • Ps 79:10 : 10 Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
  • Exod 32:12 : 12 Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.
  • Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say, 16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men: 27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
  • 2 Kgs 19:10-19 : 10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. 11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe? 12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena and of Ivvah? 14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 16 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God. 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands, 18 And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction. 19 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hands, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you and only you, O Lord, are God.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

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  • Ps 79:10
    83%

    10Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.

  • Ps 115:1
    80%

    1Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

  • Ps 115:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

    4Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Deut 32:37
    77%

    37And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

  • Joel 2:17
    76%

    17Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Ps 2:1
    74%

    1Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

  • Ps 74:1
    73%

    1<Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

  • Ps 10:1
    73%

    1Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

  • Ps 108:11
    73%

    11Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

  • 1 Chr 16:35
    73%

    35And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and let us come back, and give us salvation from the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name and have glory in your praise.

  • Jer 17:15
    73%

    15See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

  • Jer 2:11
    73%

    11Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

  • Ps 124:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1<A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);

    2If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;

  • Deut 4:7
    72%

    7For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

  • Ps 9:19
    72%

    19Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.

  • Jer 2:28
    72%

    28But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

  • Ps 73:11
    72%

    11And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

  • Acts 4:25
    72%

    25Who has said, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David your servant, Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

  • Ps 108:5
    72%

    5Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

  • Ps 60:10
    72%

    10Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

  • 2 Kgs 18:35
    71%

    35Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands?

  • Ps 10:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

    13Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

  • Ps 53:2
    71%

    2God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

  • Ps 57:5
    71%

    5O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    71%

    11See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • Ps 67:2
    71%

    2So that men may see your way on the earth, and your salvation among all nations.

  • Ps 42:10
    71%

    10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • Ps 44:20
    71%

    20If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

  • Ps 89:49
    71%

    49Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

  • Isa 40:27
    71%

    27Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

  • Ps 43:2
    71%

    2You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Ps 74:10
    71%

    10O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

  • Ps 42:3
    71%

    3My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

  • Ps 44:24
    71%

    24Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Ps 113:5
    71%

    5Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

  • 2 Sam 22:32
    71%

    32For who is God but the Lord? and who is a Rock but our God?

  • Zeph 2:11
    71%

    11The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

  • Jer 14:22
    71%

    22Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

  • Ps 106:47
    71%

    47Be our saviour, O Lord our God, and let us come back together from among the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name, and have glory in your praise.

  • Ps 66:8
    71%

    8Give blessings to our God, O you peoples, let the voice of his praise be loud;

  • Ps 46:1
    71%

    1<To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

  • Ps 77:9
    71%

    9Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

  • Ps 18:31
    71%

    31For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

  • Ps 77:13
    71%

    13Your way, O God, is holy: what god is so great as our God?

  • Ps 117:1
    71%

    1Let all the nations give praise to the Lord: let all the people give him praise.

  • Deut 32:27
    71%

    27But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

  • Ps 57:11
    71%

    11Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.