Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes by the revenging of the blood of Your servants which is shed.
New American Standard Bible
Let there be known among the nations in our sight,
King James Version
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Holman Bible
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.
International Standard Version
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let vengeance for the blood of your servants be meted out before our eyes and among the nations.
A Conservative Version
Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.
American Standard Version
Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.
Amplified
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore shall the nations say, Where is their God? He will make known among the nations before our eyes the vengeance of the blood of thy servants being poured out.
King James 2000
Why should the nations say, Where is their God? let him be known among the nations in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where [is] their God?" Let it be known among the nations before our eyes, [by] the avenging of the blood of your servants that was poured out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight.
NET Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!
New Heart English Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
The Emphasized Bible
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!
Webster
Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of thy servants which is shed.
World English Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
Youngs Literal Translation
Why do the nations say, 'Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 79:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith Amid Confusion
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us, and atone for our sins, for Your name's sake. 10 Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes by the revenging of the blood of Your servants which is shed. 11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die,
Cross References
Psalm 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, my enemies shame me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?
Psalm 94:1
O God of vengeance, Jehovah, the God of vengeance, shine forth!
Psalm 115:2
Why should the nations say, Where now is their God?
Exodus 6:7
And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the sons of Israel from among them.
Psalm 9:16
Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah.
Psalm 58:11
And man shall say, Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; truly, there is a God judging in the earth.
Psalm 83:17-18
Let them be ashamed and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and lost;
Jeremiah 51:35
the violence done to me and to my flesh shall be on Babylon; the dweller in Zion shall say. And, My blood shall be on the people of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say.
Ezekiel 36:23
And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, says the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Ezekiel 39:21-22
And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgments which I have done, and My hand that I have laid on them.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O Jehovah, and give not Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy shall see it; and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled like the mud of the streets.
Romans 12:19
not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
Revelation 18:20
Rejoice over her, Heaven, and the holy apostles, and the prophets, since God judged your judgment on her.