Psalms 79:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • 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?
  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
  • Ps 94:1 : 1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
  • Ps 115:2 : 2 Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?
  • Jer 51:35 : 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
  • Ezek 36:23 : 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
  • Ezek 39:21-22 : 21 And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.
  • 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?
  • Mic 7:10 : 10 Then she who is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled down as the mire of the streets.
  • Rom 12:19 : 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay,' says the Lord.
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
  • Ps 58:11 : 11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God who judges in the earth.
  • Ps 83:17-18 : 17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish: 18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 And I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  • Exod 7:5 : 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
  • Ps 9:16 : 16 The LORD is known by the judgment he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 115:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

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

    2Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?

  • Ps 79:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, preserve those appointed to die;

    12And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

  • 1O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.

  • Ps 79:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8O do not remember against us former iniquities; let Your tender mercies swiftly come to us, for we are brought very low.

    9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us, and cleanse away our sins, for Your name's sake.

  • 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?

  • 7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;

  • 10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

  • 6Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen who have not known You, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon Your name.

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

  • Ps 58:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

    11So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God who judges in the earth.

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

  • Ps 79:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1O God, the heathen have entered into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

    2The dead bodies of Your servants they have given to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

    3Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

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

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

  • 20But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

  • 11Do not slay them, lest my people forget; scatter them by your power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

  • 43Rejoice, O nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people.

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

  • 12But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.

  • Ps 9:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

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

    20Put them in fear, O LORD, that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

  • 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.'

  • 21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • 4O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

  • 12When he avenges blood, he remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the humble.

  • 10The LORD has brought forth our righteousness; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

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

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

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

  • 23Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

  • 25Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

  • 84How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?

  • 5Therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen; be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

  • 9Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • 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.

  • 16For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  • 15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth.

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

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

  • 27That they may know that this is your hand, that you, LORD, have done it.

  • 8Be merciful, O LORD, to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not place innocent blood upon Your people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

  • 16Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.

  • 19Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.