Psalms 115:2
Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
In Context
3But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
Cross References
Numbers 14:15Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
2 Kings 19:10This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Psalms 42:4\42:3\My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Psalms 42:11\42:10\The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
Joel 2:17Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 115:2-9
The Absurdity of Idolatry. 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:… Read the whole commentary →