逐节对照
- New American Standard Bible - Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, Weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, “ Spare Your people, Lord, And do not make Your inheritance a disgrace, With the nations jeering at them. Why should those among the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
- 新标点和合本 - 侍奉耶和华的祭司 要在廊子和祭坛中间哭泣,说: “耶和华啊,求你顾惜你的百姓, 不要使你的产业受羞辱, 列邦管辖他们。 为何容列国的人说: ‘他们的 神在哪里呢?’”
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 事奉耶和华的祭司 要在走廊和祭坛间哭泣,说: “耶和华啊,求你顾惜你的百姓, 不要使你的产业受羞辱, 在列国中成为笑柄。 为何让人在万民中说 ‘他们的上帝在哪里’呢?”
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 事奉耶和华的祭司 要在走廊和祭坛间哭泣,说: “耶和华啊,求你顾惜你的百姓, 不要使你的产业受羞辱, 在列国中成为笑柄。 为何让人在万民中说 ‘他们的 神在哪里’呢?”
- 当代译本 - 让事奉耶和华的祭司站在圣殿门廊和祭坛中间, 哭泣恳求说: “耶和华啊, 求你顾惜你的子民, 不要让外族人侮辱、 讥笑你的产业说, ‘他们的上帝在哪里呢?’”
- 圣经新译本 - 让事奉耶和华的祭司 在圣殿的廊子和祭坛之间哭泣, 让他们说:“耶和华啊!求你怜恤你的子民。 不要使你的产业受羞辱, 使他们在列国中成为笑谈。 为什么容人在万民中讥笑说: ‘他们的 神在哪里呢?’”
- 中文标准译本 - 让事奉耶和华的祭司们 在柱廊和祭坛之间哭泣, 让他们说: “耶和华啊,求你顾惜你的子民! 不要使你的继业受羞辱, 在列国中成为笑柄。 为什么让人在民众中说: ‘他们的神在哪里呢?’”
- 现代标点和合本 - 侍奉耶和华的祭司 要在廊子和祭坛中间哭泣,说: ‘耶和华啊,求你顾惜你的百姓, 不要使你的产业受羞辱, 列邦管辖他们。 为何容列国的人说: “他们的神在哪里呢?”’
- 和合本(拼音版) - 侍奉耶和华的祭司, 要在廊子和祭坛中间哭泣说: “耶和华啊,求你顾惜你的百姓, 不要使你的产业受羞辱, 列邦管辖他们。 为何容列国的人说: ‘他们的上帝在哪里呢?’”
- New International Version - Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Spare your people, Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
- New International Reader's Version - 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?’ ”
- English Standard Version - Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- New Living Translation - 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?’”
- Christian Standard Bible - Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Have pity on your people, Lord, and do not make your inheritance a disgrace, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- New King James Version - Let the priests, who minister to the Lord, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
- Amplified Bible - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, Weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, “Have compassion and spare Your people, O Lord, And do not make Your inheritance (Israel) an object of ridicule, Or a [humiliating] byword among the [Gentile] nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
- American Standard Version - Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
- King James Version - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
- New English Translation - Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, “Have pity, O Lord, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, “Where is their God?”
- World English Bible - Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- 新標點和合本 - 事奉耶和華的祭司 要在廊子和祭壇中間哭泣,說: 耶和華啊,求你顧惜你的百姓, 不要使你的產業受羞辱, 列邦管轄他們。 為何容列國的人說: 「他們的神在哪裏」呢?
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 事奉耶和華的祭司 要在走廊和祭壇間哭泣,說: 「耶和華啊,求你顧惜你的百姓, 不要使你的產業受羞辱, 在列國中成為笑柄。 為何讓人在萬民中說 『他們的上帝在哪裏』呢?」
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 事奉耶和華的祭司 要在走廊和祭壇間哭泣,說: 「耶和華啊,求你顧惜你的百姓, 不要使你的產業受羞辱, 在列國中成為笑柄。 為何讓人在萬民中說 『他們的 神在哪裏』呢?」
- 當代譯本 - 讓事奉耶和華的祭司站在聖殿門廊和祭壇中間, 哭泣懇求說: 「耶和華啊, 求你顧惜你的子民, 不要讓外族人侮辱、 譏笑你的產業說, 『他們的上帝在哪裡呢?』」
- 聖經新譯本 - 讓事奉耶和華的祭司 在聖殿的廊子和祭壇之間哭泣, 讓他們說:“耶和華啊!求你憐恤你的子民。 不要使你的產業受羞辱, 使他們在列國中成為笑談。 為甚麼容人在萬民中譏笑說: ‘他們的 神在哪裡呢?’”
- 呂振中譯本 - 伺候永恆主的祭司 須要在廊子和祭壇之間哭泣, 說:『永恆主啊,顧惜你人民哦! 不要讓你的產業被羞辱, 而在列國中令人談笑哦。 為甚麼容人在列族之民中 譏刺 說: 「他們的上帝在哪裏呢?」』
- 中文標準譯本 - 讓事奉耶和華的祭司們 在柱廊和祭壇之間哭泣, 讓他們說: 「耶和華啊,求你顧惜你的子民! 不要使你的繼業受羞辱, 在列國中成為笑柄。 為什麼讓人在民眾中說: 『他們的神在哪裡呢?』」
- 現代標點和合本 - 侍奉耶和華的祭司 要在廊子和祭壇中間哭泣,說: 『耶和華啊,求你顧惜你的百姓, 不要使你的產業受羞辱, 列邦管轄他們。 為何容列國的人說: 「他們的神在哪裡呢?」』
- 文理和合譯本 - 供役於耶和華之祭司、其哭於廊與壇之間、曰、耶和華歟、矜恤爾民、勿使爾業受辱、為列邦所轄、奚使諸國之人曰、彼之上帝安在乎、○
- 文理委辦譯本 - 祭司在耶和華前、供厥役事、當於廡下祭壇間、澘然出涕、曰、耶和華與、斯民也、本屬乎爾、求爾寛宥、不致蒙羞、為異邦人所統轄、異邦人凌侮之、曰、爾之上帝安在、亦奚以為、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 奉事主之祭司、當在廊與祭臺間號泣曰、求主矜恤主之民、莫使主之民 民原文作業 蒙羞、為異邦人所轄制、否則恐異邦人譏誚曰、 否則恐異邦人譏誚曰原文作何為使異邦人曰 彼之天主安在、○
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Lloren, sacerdotes, ministros del Señor, entre el pórtico y el altar; y digan: «Compadécete, Señor, de tu pueblo. No entregues tu propiedad al oprobio, para que las naciones no se burlen de ella. ¿Por qué habrán de decir entre los pueblos: “Dónde está su Dios?”»
- 현대인의 성경 - 여호와를 섬기는 제사장들은 성전 현관과 제단 사이에서 울며 이렇게 기도하라. “여호와여, 우리를 불쌍히 여기셔서 주의 백성인 우리가 이방 나라의 멸시와 조롱거리가 되지 않게 하소서. 어째서 이방 나라들에게 ‘너희 하나님이 어디 있느냐?’ 하고 말하게 하십니까?”
- Новый Русский Перевод - Пусть священники, служащие перед Господом, плачут между притвором храма и жертвенником. Пусть взывают: «Господи, пощади Свой народ! Не дай насмехаться над Своим наследием, не дай чужим народам править нами . Зачем им говорить: „Где их Бог?“»
- Восточный перевод - Пусть священнослужители Вечного плачут между притвором храма и жертвенником. Пусть взывают: «Вечный, пощади Свой народ! Не дай насмехаться над Своим наследием, не дай чужим народам править нами . Зачем им говорить: „Где их Бог?“»
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Пусть священнослужители Вечного плачут между притвором храма и жертвенником. Пусть взывают: «Вечный, пощади Свой народ! Не дай насмехаться над Своим наследием, не дай чужим народам править нами . Зачем им говорить: „Где их Бог?“»
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Пусть священнослужители Вечного плачут между притвором храма и жертвенником. Пусть взывают: «Вечный, пощади Свой народ! Не дай насмехаться над Своим наследием, не дай чужим народам править нами . Зачем им говорить: „Где их Бог?“»
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - et que les prêtres ╵qui servent l’Eternel se tiennent en pleurant entre le portique et l’autel . Qu’ils prient ainsi : O Eternel, ╵aie pitié de ton peuple, n’expose pas celui qui t’appartient ╵au déshonneur ni aux railleries d’autres peuples ! Car pourquoi dirait-on ╵parmi les peuples : « Où est leur Dieu ? »
- リビングバイブル - 神に仕える祭司たちは、民と祭壇の間に立って、 泣きながら祈るがいい。 「神様、あなたの民をお救いください。 あなたに属する者たちなのですから、 異教徒の支配下に置かないでください。 『彼らの神はどこにいるのか。 きっと弱くて、何もできないのだろう』と、 異教徒にあざけられないようにしてください。」
- Nova Versão Internacional - Que os sacerdotes, que ministram perante o Senhor, chorem entre o pórtico do templo e o altar, orando: “Poupa o teu povo, Senhor. Não faças da tua herança objeto de zombaria e de chacota entre as nações. Por que se haveria de dizer pelos povos: ‘Onde está o Deus deles?’ ”
- Hoffnung für alle - Ihr Priester, ihr Diener des Herrn, weint im Tempelvorhof und betet: »Herr, hab Erbarmen mit deinem Volk! Wir gehören doch zu dir! Lass nicht zu, dass fremde Völker uns verspotten! Warum sollen sie uns verhöhnen und rufen: ›Wo bleibt er nun, ihr Gott?‹«
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Hãy để các thầy tế lễ, những người phục vụ trước Chúa Hằng Hữu, đứng và khóc lóc giữa hành lang Đền Thờ và bàn thờ. Hãy để họ cầu nguyện: “Lạy Chúa Hằng Hữu, xin thương xót dân Ngài! Xin đừng để tuyển dân của Ngài trở thành đề tài chế nhạo. Xin đừng để họ trở thành trò cười cho các dân nước ngoài không tin kính, nói rằng: ‘Có phải Đức Chúa Trời của Ít-ra-ên đã lìa bỏ nó?’”
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ให้ปุโรหิตผู้ปฏิบัติงานอยู่ต่อหน้าองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า ร่ำไห้อยู่ระหว่างมุขพระวิหารกับแท่นบูชา ให้พวกเขาทูลว่า “ข้าแต่องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า ขอทรงสงวนประชากรของพระองค์ อย่าให้มรดกของพระองค์เป็นที่เย้ยหยัน เป็นคำเปรียบเปรยในหมู่ประชาชาติ อย่าให้ชนชาติทั้งหลายพูดกันว่า ‘ไหนล่ะพระเจ้าของพวกเขา?’ ” องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าทรงตอบ
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ให้บรรดาปุโรหิต บรรดาผู้รับใช้ของพระผู้เป็นเจ้า ร้องไห้ระหว่างห้องมุขและแท่นบูชา และพูดดังนี้ว่า “โอ พระผู้เป็นเจ้า ขอพระองค์ไว้ชีวิตชนชาติของพระองค์เถิด และอย่าทำให้ผู้สืบมรดกของพระองค์เป็นที่ดูหมิ่น เป็นดั่งคำเปรียบเปรยในสุภาษิตท่ามกลางบรรดาประชาชาติ ทำไมพวกเขาจึงจะพูดในท่ามกลางบรรดาชนชาติดังนี้ว่า ‘พระเจ้าของพวกเขาอยู่ที่ไหน’”
交叉引用
- Nehemiah 9:36 - Behold, we are slaves today, And as for the land which You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, Behold, we are slaves on it.
- Exodus 32:11 - Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
- Exodus 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people.
- Exodus 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”
- Psalms 89:41 - All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
- Hosea 14:2 - Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all guilt And receive us graciously, So that we may present the fruit of our lips.
- Deuteronomy 9:16 - And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a cast metal image of a calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way that the Lord had commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 9:17 - So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes!
- Deuteronomy 9:18 - Then I fell down before the Lord like the first time, for forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:19 - For I was afraid of the anger and the rage with which the Lord was angry with you so as to destroy you; but the Lord listened to me that time as well.
- Deuteronomy 9:20 - The Lord was also angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
- Deuteronomy 9:21 - And I took your sinful thing which you had made, the calf, and burned it in the fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.
- Deuteronomy 9:22 - “Then at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah you kept provoking the Lord to anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:23 - And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,’ you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; you neither trusted Him nor listened to His voice.
- Deuteronomy 9:24 - You have been rebellious toward the Lord since the day I knew you.
- Deuteronomy 9:25 - “So I fell down before the Lord for the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord said He would destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 9:26 - And I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand!
- Deuteronomy 9:27 - Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not turn Your attention to the stubbornness of this people, or to their wickedness, or their sin.
- Deuteronomy 9:28 - Otherwise, the people of the land from which You brought us will say, “Since the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them, and since He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness!”
- Deuteronomy 9:29 - Yet they are Your people, and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’
- Psalms 89:51 - With which Your enemies have taunted, Lord, With which they have taunted the footsteps of Your anointed.
- Deuteronomy 28:37 - And you will become an object of horror, a song of mockery, and an object of taunting among all the peoples where the Lord drives you.
- Daniel 9:18 - My God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our pleas before You based on any merits of our own, but based on Your great compassion.
- Daniel 9:19 - Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”
- Deuteronomy 32:27 - Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant, And the Lord has not performed all this.” ’
- Matthew 27:43 - He has trusted in God; let God rescue Him now, if He takes pleasure in Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”
- Isaiah 64:9 - Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord, Nor remember wrongdoing forever. Behold, please look, all of us are Your people.
- Isaiah 64:10 - Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- Isaiah 64:11 - Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.
- Isaiah 64:12 - Will You restrain Yourself at these things, Lord? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
- Malachi 1:9 - “But now, do indeed plead for God’s favor, so that He will be gracious to us. With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you kindly?” says the Lord of armies.
- Isaiah 63:17 - Why, Lord, do You cause us to stray from Your ways And harden our heart from fearing You? Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
- Isaiah 63:18 - Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trampled it down.
- Isaiah 63:19 - We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name.
- Psalms 44:10 - You cause us to turn back from the enemy; And those who hate us have taken spoils for themselves.
- Psalms 44:11 - You turn us over to be eaten like sheep, And have scattered us among the nations.
- Psalms 44:12 - You sell Your people cheaply, And have not profited by their sale.
- Psalms 44:13 - You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, Of scoffing and ridicule to those around us.
- Psalms 44:14 - You make us a proverb among the nations, A laughingstock among the peoples.
- Psalms 79:4 - We have become a disgrace before our neighbors, An object of derision and ridicule to those around us.
- 1 Kings 9:7 - then I will cut Israel off from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will expel from My sight. So Israel will become a saying and an object of derision among all peoples.
- Psalms 42:3 - My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Ezekiel 36:4 - Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities which have become plunder and an object of ridicule to the rest of the nations which are all around—
- Ezekiel 36:5 - therefore the Lord God says this: “Certainly in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with contempt of soul, in order to make its pastureland plunder.”
- Ezekiel 36:6 - Therefore prophesy in regard to the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “This is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.’
- Ezekiel 36:7 - Therefore the Lord God says this: ‘I have sworn that the nations that are around you will certainly endure their insults themselves.
- Joel 1:13 - Put on sackcloth And mourn, you priests; Wail, you ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, You ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Have been withheld from the house of your God.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 - then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight; and I will make it a proverb and an object of scorn among all peoples.
- Psalms 74:18 - Remember this, Lord, that the enemy has taunted You, And a foolish people has treated Your name disrespectfully.
- Psalms 74:19 - Do not give the soul of Your turtledove to the wild animal; Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
- Psalms 74:20 - Consider the covenant; For the dark places of the land are full of the places of violence.
- Psalms 74:21 - May the oppressed person not return dishonored; May the afflicted and the needy praise Your name.
- Psalms 74:22 - Arise, God, and plead Your own cause; Remember how the foolish person taunts You all day long.
- Psalms 74:23 - Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries, The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually.
- Ezekiel 20:9 - But I acted for the sake of My name, that it would not be defiled in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 34:9 - Then he said, “If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though the people are so obstinate, and pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us as Your own possession.”
- Amos 7:2 - And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, “Lord God, please pardon! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”
- Numbers 14:14 - and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people, because You, Lord, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 14:15 - Now if You put this people to death all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
- Numbers 14:16 - ‘Since the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
- Psalms 74:10 - How long, God, will the enemy taunt You? Shall the enemy treat Your name disrespectfully forever?
- Amos 7:5 - Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”
- Matthew 23:35 - so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
- Psalms 42:10 - As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Micah 7:10 - Then my enemy will see, And shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look at her; At that time she will be trampled down Like mud of the streets.
- 2 Chronicles 8:12 - Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the porch;
- Isaiah 37:20 - But now Lord, our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord, are God.”
- Joel 1:9 - The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off From the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, The ministers of the Lord.
- 1 Kings 6:3 - The porch in front of the main room of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding to the width of the house, and its width along the front of the house was ten cubits.
- Psalms 79:10 - Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed Be known among the nations in our sight.
- Psalms 115:2 - Why should the nations say, “Where, then, is their God?”
- Ezekiel 8:16 - Then He brought me into the inner courtyard of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord while their faces were toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.