Judges 21:3
New International Version
3 “Lord, God of Israel,” they cried, “why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing(A) from Israel today?”
Judges 21:3
King James Version
3 And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
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Jeremiah 12:1
New International Version
Jeremiah’s Complaint
Jeremiah 12:1
King James Version
12 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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Isaiah 63:17
King James Version
17 O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
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Proverbs 19:3
New International Version
Proverbs 19:3
King James Version
3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
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Psalm 80:12
New International Version
12 Why have you broken down its walls(A)
so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
Psalm 80:12
King James Version
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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Psalm 74:1
New International Version
Psalm 74
A maskil[a] of Asaph.
Footnotes
- Psalm 74:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
Psalm 74:1
King James Version
74 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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Joshua 7:7-9
New International Version
7 And Joshua said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord, why(A) did you ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us?(B) If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan! 8 Pardon your servant, Lord. What can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies? 9 The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth.(C) What then will you do for your own great name?(D)”
Joshua 7:7-9
King James Version
7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
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Deuteronomy 29:24
New International Version
24 All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?(A) Why this fierce, burning anger?”
Deuteronomy 29:24
King James Version
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
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