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Psalms 79:10
Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks for Israel to God, positioned immediately after pleading for deliverance for His name’s sake and immediately before asking God to hear the captives’ groans.
The words — לָמָּה (lammah) = why? and יִוּוָדַע (yivada') = let it be known, structuring the verse as a direct challenge for God’s vengeance to become visibly public.
The thread — The taunt “Where is your God?” recurs in Psalm 42:10, while the pattern of God acting so the nations will know He is the LORD runs through Exodus 6:7 and Exodus 7:5.
Why it lands — It demands that a reader look for God’s reputation to be defended through visible justice, requiring trust that His name will be vindicated before any personal relief arrives.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Cross-references
- Psalms 42:10 Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Exodus 6:7 I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
- Psalms 42:3 My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 94:1 O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.
- Psalms 115:2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
- Ezekiel 39:21 I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
- Micah 7:10 Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
- Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.
- Psalms 9:16 The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah