Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Wherefore should the nations say, Where then 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?
Amplified
Why should the nations say,
“Where, now, is their God?”
Bible in Basic English
Why may the nations say, Where is now 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 Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth's sake. 2 Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God? 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he pleased.
Cross References
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalm 79:10
Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.
Exodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!
Psalm 42:10
As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Numbers 14:15-16
if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
2 Kings 19:10-19
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah saying: Let not thy God, upon whom thou reliest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they should be a byword of the nations. Wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?