Psalm 115:2 {113:10}
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For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God?

Psalm 42:3,10 My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God? . . .

Psalm 79:10 Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:

Exodus 32:12 Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.

Numbers 14:15,16 May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say: . . .

Deuteronomy 32:26-27 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. . . .

2 Kings 19:10-19 Thus shall you say to Ezechias, king of Juda: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. . . .

Joel 2:17 Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

Context
To Your Name Be the Glory
1Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory. 2For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God?3But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.…
Cross References
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:10
Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?

Psalm 79:10
Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:

Joel 2:17
Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

Lexicon
Why
לָ֭מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

should the nations
הַגּוֹיִ֑ם (hag·gō·w·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

say,
יֹאמְר֣וּ (yō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Where
אַיֵּה־ (’ay·yêh-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 346: Where?

is their God?”
אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


Additional Translations
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”Why should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?

lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?

Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God?

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?

Why should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"

Why do the nations say, 'Where, pray, is their God.
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