Psalm 42:3
New Living Translation
3 Day and night I have only tears for food,
while my enemies continually taunt me, saying,
“Where is this God of yours?”
Psalm 79:10
New Living Translation
10 Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff,
asking, “Where is their God?”
Show us your vengeance against the nations,
for they have spilled the blood of your servants.
Psalm 115:2
New Living Translation
2 Why let the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Joel 2:17
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17 Let the priests, who minister in the Lord’s presence,
stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar.
Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord!
Don’t let your special possession become an object of mockery.
Don’t let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say,
‘Has the God of Israel left them?’”
Psalm 80:5
New Living Translation
5 You have fed us with sorrow
and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
Psalm 42:10
New Living Translation
10 Their taunts break my bones.
They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”
Psalm 102:9
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9 I eat ashes for food.
My tears run down into my drink
Micah 7:10
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10 Then my enemies will see that the Lord is on my side.
They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying,
“So where is the Lord—
that God of yours?”
With my own eyes I will see their downfall;
they will be trampled like mud in the streets.
Psalm 79:12
New Living Translation
12 O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times
for the scorn they have hurled at you.
Psalm 22:8
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8 “Is this the one who relies on the Lord?
Then let the Lord save him!
If the Lord loves him so much,
let the Lord rescue him!”
Psalm 3:2
New Living Translation
2 So many are saying,
“God will never rescue him!” Interlude[a]
Footnotes
- 3:2 Hebrew Selah. The meaning of this word is uncertain, though it is probably a musical or literary term. It is rendered Interlude throughout the Psalms.
2 Samuel 16:12
New Living Translation
12 And perhaps the Lord will see that I am being wronged[a] and will bless me because of these curses today.”
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- 16:12 As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads see my iniquity.
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