Exodus 32:12
12 aWhy should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and brelent from this disaster against your people.Numbers 14:15-16
15Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, 16‘It is because the Lord cwas not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’Deuteronomy 32:26-27
26 dI would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;eI will wipe them from human memory,”
27had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, f“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
2 Kings 19:10-19
10“Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God gin whom you trust deceive you by promising that hJerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? 12 iHave the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, jGozan, kHaran, Rezeph, and the people of lEden who were in Telassar? 13 mWhere is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”Hezekiah’s Prayer
14Hezekiah received nthe letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. 15And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of Israel, oenthroned above the cherubim, pyou are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 16 qIncline your ear, O Lord, and hear; ropen your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent sto mock the living God. 17Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands 18and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, tbut the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 19So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, uthat all the kingdoms of the earth may know that vyou, O Lord, are God alone.”Psalms 42:3
3 wMy tears have been my foodday and night,
xwhile they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
Psalms 42:10
10As with a deadly wound in my bones,my adversaries taunt me,
ywhile they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
Psalms 79:10
10 zWhy should the nations say,“Where is their God?”
Let aathe avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes!
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