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Psalm 115

Psa. 115:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefored should the heathen
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Where is now their God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
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Joel 2:17• 17Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God? (Joel 2:17)

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Psa. 42:3,10• 3My tears have been food to me by day and by night,{HR}Whilst they say unto me all the day, Where [is] thy God?
 10With a sword in my bones mine oppressors have reproached me,{HR}When they say all the day unto me, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:3,10)
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Psa. 79:10• 10Why should the nations say, Where [is] their God?{HR}Let there be known among the nations in our sight (eyes){HR}Avenging of thy servants' blood that is shed. (Psa. 79:10)
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Ex. 32:12• 12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. (Ex. 32:12)
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Num. 14:15‑16• 15Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
 16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. (Num. 14:15‑16)
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Deut. 32:26‑27• 26{i}I would say, I will scatter,{HR}I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,{HR}{/i}
 27{i}If I did not fear provocation from the enemy,{HR}Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it,{HR}Lest they should say, Our hand is high,{HR}And Jehovah has not done all this.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:26‑27)
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2 Kings 19:10‑19• 10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah {i}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{/i}.
 11{i}Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?{/i}
 12{i}Have the gods of the nations which my fathers have destroyed delivered them: Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar?{/i}
 13{i}Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?{/i}
 14{i}And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah{/i} went up into the house of Jehovah and spread it before Jehovah.
 15And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
 16O Jehovah, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, O Jehovah, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
 17{i}Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,{/i}
 18{i}and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore have they destroyed them.{/i}
 19{i}And now, Jehovah our God, I beseech thee, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, Jehovah, art God, thou only{/i}. (2 Kings 19:10‑19)
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Joel 2:17• 17Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God? (Joel 2:17)
• In the governmental ways of God, they had, because of their failure and idolatry, been cast off, giving the enemy the occasion of asking, “Where is their God?” (“Psalm 115” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Why should the nations say,{HR}Where pray [is] their God?