Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore should the nations say, Pray where 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?
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?"
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 Yahweh, not unto us, - but, unto thine own Name, give glory, concerning thy lovingkindness, concerning thy faithfulness. 2 Wherefore should the nations say, Pray where is their God? 3 When, our God, is in the heavens, Whatsoever he pleased, hath he done.
Cross References
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalm 79:10
Wherefore should the nations say - Where is their God? Let him be known among the nations before our eyes! Yea! By the avenging of the blood of thy servants which hath been shed!
Exodus 32:12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak saying - For mischief, hath he taken them forth to slay them among the mountains, and to make an end of them from off the face of the ground? Turn thou from the kindling of thine anger, and be grieved over the calamity to thy people,
Psalm 42:10
With a crushing of my bones, have my adversaries reproached me, - While they keep saying unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Numbers 14:15-16
As soon, therefore, as thou hast put to death this people as one man, so soon will the nations who have heard thy fame speak saying:
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory;
2 Kings 19:10-19
Thus, shall ye, speak, unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying - Let not thy God in whom thou art trusting beguile thee, saying, - Jerusalem shall not be given over, into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Joel 2:17
Between the porch and the altar, let the priests, weep, the attendants of Yahweh, - and let them say - Look with pity, O Yahweh, upon thy people, and do not deliver thine inheritance to reproach, that the nations, should mock them, Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?