Psalms 115:2
1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
3 Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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?
- DARBY
- Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God?
- BLB
- Why should the nations say, “Where now [is] their God?”
- ÅB
- Hvorfor skal hedningene si: Hvor er nå deres Gud?
- OTB
- Hvorfor skal folkene si:
«Hvor er deres Gud nå?» - B1930
- Hvorfor skal hedningene si: Hvor er nu deres Gud?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 79:10
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.
Read in contextPsalms 42:3
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Read in contextPsalms 42:10
Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Read in contextExodus 32:12
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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:26–27
I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Read in contextNumbers 14:15–16
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Read in contextJoel 2:17
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 among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Read in context2 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.
Read in context