Parallel Verses
Amplified
Why should the nations say,
“Where, now, is their God?”
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
Holman Bible
Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
International Standard Version
Why should the nations ask "Where now is their God?"
A Conservative Version
Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?
American Standard Version
Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?
Bible in Basic English
Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?
Darby Translation
Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore shall the nations say, Where now their God?
King James 2000
Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where, {pray tell}, [is] their God?"
Modern King James verseion
Why should the nations say, Where now is their God?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore shall the Heathen say, "Where is now their God?"
NET Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
New Heart English Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore should the nations say, Pray where is their God?
Webster
Why should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
World English Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
Youngs Literal Translation
Why do the nations say, 'Where, pray, is their God.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 115:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Dead Idols And The Living God
1
But to Your name give glory
Because of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth and faithfulness.
Why should the nations say,
“Where, now, is their God?”
But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.
Cross References
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 79:10
Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],
Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.
Exodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil [intent] their God brought them out to kill them in the mountains and destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn away from Your burning anger and change Your mind about harming Your people.
Psalm 42:10
As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
Numbers 14:15-16
Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations (Gentiles) that have heard of Your fame will say,
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces [scattering them far away],
I will remove the memory of them from men,”
2 Kings 19:10-19
“Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by saying, “Jerusalem shall not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord,
Weep between the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “Have compassion and spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not make Your inheritance (Israel) an object of ridicule,
Or a [humiliating] byword among the [Gentile] nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”