2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Psalms 115:2. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
לָ֭מָּה יֹאמְר֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֑ם אַיֵּה־נָ֝֗א אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃
לָ֭מָּה
יֹאמְר֣וּ
הַגּוֹיִ֑ם
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Ἐγὼ δὲ εἶπα ἐν τῇ ἐκστάσει μου, πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ψεύστης.
Ἐγὼ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐγώ
- Transliteration
- ego
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative first-person singular
- Gloss
- I
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- First-person personal pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 11445
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
εἶπα
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- λέγω
- Transliteration
- eipa
- Morphology
- verb, aorist active indicative, 1st singular
- Gloss
- I said
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- To say or speak.
- Occurrences
- 5490
ἐν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐν
- Transliteration
- en
- Morphology
- preposition with dative
- Gloss
- in, among, with
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- Preposition commonly taking the dative.
- Strong's
- G1722
- Occurrences
- 13086
τῇ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
ἐκστάσει
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἐκστάσει
- Transliteration
- ekstasei
- Morphology
- dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 9
μου
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐγώ
- Transliteration
- ego
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative first-person singular
- Gloss
- I
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- First-person personal pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 11445
πᾶς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- πᾶς
- Transliteration
- pas
- Morphology
- adjective, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- all, every
- Part of Speech
- adjective
- Definition
- All, every, whole.
- Occurrences
- 6138
ἄνθρωπος
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἄνθρωπος
- Transliteration
- anthropos
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative singular
- Gloss
- human, man
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Human being, person, man.
- Occurrences
- 1305
ψεύστης
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- ψεύστης
- Transliteration
- pseystes
- Morphology
- genitive singular feminine or nominative masculine pattern
- Gloss
- of ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective/pronoun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܕܠܐ ܢܐܡܪܘܢ ܥܡ̈ܡܐ ܐܝܟܘ ܐܠܗܗܘܢ
ܕܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܠܐ
- Transliteration
- dl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1157
ܢܐܡܪܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܐܡܪܘܢ
- Transliteration
- n'mrwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 41
ܥܡ̈ܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܡܡܐ
- Transliteration
- 'mm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 352
ܐܝܟܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܝܟܘ
- Transliteration
- 'ykw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 32
ܐܠܗܗܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܠܗܗܘܢ
- Transliteration
- 'lhhwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 54
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
לְמָא יֵימְרוּן עַמְמַיָא אָן הַשְׁתָּא אֱלָהָהוֹן׃
לְמָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- למא
- Transliteration
- lm'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 187
יֵימְרוּן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יימרון
- Transliteration
- yymrwn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 90
עַמְמַיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עממיא
- Transliteration
- 'mmy'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 635
אָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אן
- Transliteration
- 'n
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 38
הַשְׁתָּא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- השתא
- Transliteration
- hsht'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 18
אֱלָהָהוֹן׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אלההון
- Transliteration
- 'lhhwn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 44
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Ego dixi in excessu meo: Omnis homo mendax.
Ego
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- ego
- Transliteration
- Ego
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 6108
dixi
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- dixi
- Transliteration
- dixi
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 7
in
- Status
- Machine-aligned lexicon entry
- Note
- Machine-aligned to an existing lexicon entry. Verify against the source before treating as hand-curated.
- Lemma
- in
- Transliteration
- in
- Morphology
- preposition
- Gloss
- in
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- in, into, among, on
- Etymology
- Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
- Occurrences
- 22264
excessu
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- excessu
- Transliteration
- excessu
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin source token
- Occurrences
- 1
meo
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- meo
- Transliteration
- meo
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 31
Omnis
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- omnis
- Transliteration
- Omnis
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 5506
homo
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- homo
- Transliteration
- homo
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin nominal/adjectival form
- Occurrences
- 1653
mendax
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Note
- Machine-enriched from transliteration and language rules. Detailed morphology is pending a dedicated source import.
- Lemma
- mendax
- Transliteration
- mendax
- Morphology
- preliminary Latin source token
- Occurrences
- 42
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
8 relevance votesPsalms 79:10
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
8 relevance votesPsalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
5 relevance votesExodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
4 relevance votesJoel 2:17
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?’”
3 relevance votes