Psalms 115:2

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Why let the nations say, "Where is their God?"

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

Update Bible Version
Why should the nations say, Where now is their God?

New Century Version
Why do the nations ask, "Where is their God?"

New English Translation
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

Webster's Bible Translation
Why should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?

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

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

English Standard Version
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
On thi merci and thi treuthe; lest ony tyme hethene men seien, Where is the God of hem?

Berean Standard Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

Contemporary English Version
Why should the nations ask, "Where is your 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?

Complete Jewish Bible
Why should the nations ask, "Where is their God?"

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Why should the nations wonder where our God is?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wherefore should the nations say: 'Where is now their God?'

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore should the heathen say: Where is now their God?

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

New Revised Standard
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore shall the heathen say, Where is nowe their God?

George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore the Gentiles have no cause to say, Where is now their God?

Good News Translation
Why should the nations ask us, "Where is your God?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore should the nations say, Pray where is their God?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(113-10) For thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God?

Revised Standard Version
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore shal the Heathen say: where is nowe their God?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?

Christian Standard Bible®
Why should the nations say,“Where is their God?”

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

Lexham English Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where, pray tell, is their God?"

Literal Translation
Why do the nations say, Where is their God now?

Young's Literal Translation
Why do the nations say, `Where, pray, [is] their God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore shal the Heithen saye: where is now their God?

New American Standard Bible
Why should the nations say, "Where, then, is their God?"

New King James Version
Why should the Gentiles say, "So where is their God?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Why should the nations say, "Where, now, is their God?"

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Not unto us, O Lord , not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. ² Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? ³ But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. ⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: ⁶ They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: ⁷ They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. ⁸ They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 42:3, Psalms 42:10, Psalms 79:10, Exodus 32:12, Numbers 14:15, Numbers 14:16, Deuteronomy 32:26, Deuteronomy 32:27, 2 Kings 19:10-19, Joel 2:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:28 - Because 1 Kings 20:22 - at the return 2 Kings 2:14 - Where is 1 Chronicles 16:28 - glory Psalms 65:1 - Praise Isaiah 33:5 - The Lord Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Ezekiel 36:22 - General Daniel 9:19 - thine Micah 7:10 - Where

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore should the Heathen say,.... The nations about Israel, the nations of the world; the Gentiles in any age; the Papists in ours, sometimes called the Heathen, Psalms 10:16. The church expostulates with the Lord why those should be suffered to say, in a reproachful, insulting, manner, and by way of triumph,

where is now their God? that they have boasted of would help them; in whom they have put their trust and confidence; why does not he help them, as he has promised, and they expect? Thus the church suggests, that if the Lord did not appear for them, his own glory lay at stake. Such language is generally used by their enemies, when the people of God were in any distress; see Psalms 42:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore should the heathen say - The nations; they who worshipped idols, and who claimed that those idols were true gods. Why should we, thy people, be so left, so forsaken, so afflicted, as to lead these idolaters to suppose that we worship a false God, or that the God whom we adore is destitute of power or faithfulness; either that he does not exist, or that he cannot be relied on. It is evident that they were now in circumstances which would give some plausibility to the question here asked.

Where is now their God? - They seem to be forsaken. God, the God whom they worship, does not come forth for their defense. If he exists at all, he is destitute of power, or he is not true to the people who worship him, and he cannot be trusted. Compare Psalms 42:3, note; Psalms 42:10, note; Psalms 79:10, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 115:2. Wherefore should the heathen say — This appears to refer to a time in which the Israelites had suffered some sad reverses, so as to be brought very low, and to be marked by the heathen.