Mazmur 115:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Mengapa bangsa-bangsa akan berkata: "Di mana Allah mereka?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Mengapa bangsa-bangsa akan berkata: "Di mana Allah mereka?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Mengapa gerangan orang kafir kelak berkata demikian: Di manakah Allah mereka itu sekarang?

Contextual Overview

¹ Geue praise not vnto vs O God, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name: for thy louing mercy, and for thy truethes sake. ² Wherfore shal the Heathen say: where is nowe their God? ³ Truely our Lorde is in heauen: he hath done whatsoeuer pleased him. ⁴ Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes. ⁵ They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not. ⁶ They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not. ⁷ They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes. ⁸ They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 42:3, Psalms 42:10, Psalms 79:10, Exodus 32:12, Numbers 14:15, Numbers 14:16, Deuteronomy 32:26, Deuteronomy 32:27, 2 Kings 19:10-19, Joel 2:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:28 - Because 1 Kings 20:22 - at the return 2 Kings 2:14 - Where is 1 Chronicles 16:28 - glory Psalms 65:1 - Praise Isaiah 33:5 - The Lord Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Ezekiel 36:22 - General Daniel 9:19 - thine Micah 7:10 - Where

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore should the Heathen say,.... The nations about Israel, the nations of the world; the Gentiles in any age; the Papists in ours, sometimes called the Heathen, Psalms 10:16. The church expostulates with the Lord why those should be suffered to say, in a reproachful, insulting, manner, and by way of triumph,

where is now their God? that they have boasted of would help them; in whom they have put their trust and confidence; why does not he help them, as he has promised, and they expect? Thus the church suggests, that if the Lord did not appear for them, his own glory lay at stake. Such language is generally used by their enemies, when the people of God were in any distress; see Psalms 42:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore should the heathen say - The nations; they who worshipped idols, and who claimed that those idols were true gods. Why should we, thy people, be so left, so forsaken, so afflicted, as to lead these idolaters to suppose that we worship a false God, or that the God whom we adore is destitute of power or faithfulness; either that he does not exist, or that he cannot be relied on. It is evident that they were now in circumstances which would give some plausibility to the question here asked.

Where is now their God? - They seem to be forsaken. God, the God whom they worship, does not come forth for their defense. If he exists at all, he is destitute of power, or he is not true to the people who worship him, and he cannot be trusted. Compare Psalms 42:3, note; Psalms 42:10, note; Psalms 79:10, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 115:2. Wherefore should the heathen say — This appears to refer to a time in which the Israelites had suffered some sad reverses, so as to be brought very low, and to be marked by the heathen.