Psalms 115:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why should 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 continually say to me, Where is your God?
  • Ps 79:10 : 10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed.
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?
  • Exod 32:12 : 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this evil against Your people.
  • Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.
  • 2 Kgs 19:10-19 : 10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by utterly destroying them: and shall you be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, as 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 city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 16 LORD, incline your ear, and hear: open, LORD, your eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. 17 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beg you, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD God, you alone.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

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  • 10Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed.

  • 1Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, for Your mercy and for Your truth's sake.

  • Ps 115:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3But our God is in the heavens; He has done whatever He has pleased.

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • 37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

  • 17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • 74%

    1Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

  • 1O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

  • 1Why do You stand afar off, O LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

  • 11Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? And will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts?

  • 35And say, 'Save us, O God of our salvation, gather us together, and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.'

  • 15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • 11Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • Ps 124:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1If 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 rose up against us:

  • 7For what nation is there so great, who has God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

  • 19Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in your sight.

  • 28But where are your gods that you have made? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

  • 11And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

  • 25Who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things?

  • 5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens: and your glory above all the earth;

  • 10Will You not, O God, who had cast us off? And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

  • 35Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?

  • Ps 10:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Your hand; do not forget the humble.

    13Why does the wicked despise God? He has said in his heart, You will not require it.

  • 2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought God.

  • 5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth.

  • 11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • 2That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.

  • 10As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

  • 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

  • 49Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?

  • 27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

  • 2For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

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

  • 24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • 5Who is like the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

  • 32For who is God, except the LORD? and who is a rock, except our God?

  • 11The LORD will be awesome to them: for he will starve all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

  • 22Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait upon You, for You have made all these things.

  • 47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to your holy name, and to triumph in your praise.

  • 8O bless our God, you people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

  • 1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

  • 9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

  • 31For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock except our God?

  • 13Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; who is as great a God as our God?

  • 1O praise the LORD, all you nations; praise him, all you people.

  • 27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.

  • 11Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth.