Why do the nations ask,“ Where is their God?”

为何容外邦人说：“他们的神在哪里呢？”

为何让列国说“他们的上帝在哪里”呢？

为何让列国说“他们的神在哪里”呢？

为何让列国说“他们的上帝在哪里”？

为什么容列国的人说：“他们的神在哪里呢？”

列国为什么要说：“他们的神在哪里呢？”

為何容外邦人說：他們的神在哪裏呢？

為何讓列國說「他們的上帝在哪裏」呢？

為何讓列國說「他們的神在哪裏」呢？

為何讓列國說「他們的上帝在哪裡」？

為甚麼容列國的人說：“他們的神在哪裡呢？”

為甚麼容外國人譏笑說：『他們的上帝在哪裏？』呢？

列國為什麼要說：「他們的神在哪裡呢？」

列邦奚曰、彼之上帝安在兮、

異邦之民、胡為詰我曰、以色列之上帝安在兮、

異邦人因何詰我云、所恃之天主原文作異邦人因何云彼之天主安在、

莫令異邦兮驕泰。曰彼之主兮安在。

Why do the nations say,“ Where is their God?”

Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?”

Why let the nations say,“ Where is their God?”

Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?”

Why should the nations say,“ Where, then, is their God?”

Why should the Gentiles say,“ So where is their God?”

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

Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?”

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where[ is] now their God?

Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?”

Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God, now?”

My tears have been my food day and night. All day long people say to me,“ Where is your God?”

Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?” Show the nations that you punish those who kill your people. We want to see it happen.

My body suffers deadly pain as my enemies make fun of me. All day long they say to me,“ Where is your God?”

Why should the Egyptians say,‘ He brought them out to hurt them. He wanted to kill them in the mountains. He wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn away from your great anger. Please take pity on your people. Don’t destroy them!

I said I would scatter them. I said I would erase their name from human memory.But I was afraid their enemies would make fun of that. I was afraid their attackers would not understand. I was sure they would say,‘ We’re the ones who’ve beaten them! The Lord isn’t the one who did it.’ ”

“ Tell Hezekiah, the king of Judah,‘ Don’t let the god you depend on trick you. He says,“ Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” But don’t believe him.I’m sure you have heard about what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries. They have destroyed them completely. So do you think you will be saved?The kings who ruled before me destroyed many nations. Did the gods of those nations save them? Did the gods of Gozan, Harran or Rezeph save them? What about the gods of the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?Where is the king of Hamath? Where is the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?’ ”When Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, he read it. Then he went up to the Lord’ s temple. There he spread the letter out in front of the Lord.Hezekiah prayed to the Lord. He said,“ Lord, you are the God of Israel. You sit on your throne between the cherubim. You alone are God over all the kingdoms on earth. You have made heaven and earth.Listen, Lord. Hear us. Open your eyes, Lord. Look at the trouble we’re in. Listen to what Sennacherib is saying. You are the living God. And he dares to make fun of you!“ Lord, it’s true that the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations and their lands.They have thrown the statues of the gods of those nations into the fire. And they have destroyed them. That’s because they weren’t really gods at all. They were nothing but statues made out of wood and stone. They were made by human hands.Lord our God, save us from the power of Sennacherib. Then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone are the Lord. You alone are God.”

Let the priests who serve the Lord weep. Let them cry between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say,“ Lord, spare your people. Don’t let others make fun of them. Don’t let the nations laugh at them. Don’t let them tease your people and say,‘ Where is their God?’ ”

Suppose you put all these people to death and leave none alive. Then the nations who have heard these things about you will talk. They’ll say,‘ The Lord promised to give these people the land of Canaan. But he wasn’t able to bring them into it. So he killed them in the desert.’