Numbers 14:14-16
14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants
of this land. They have heard that you,
Lord, are among this people, that you,
Lord, are seen face to face,
that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
14:15 If you kill
this entire people at once,
then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
14:16 ‘Because the
Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’
Deuteronomy 32:27
32:27 But I fear the reaction of their enemies,
for their adversaries would misunderstand
and say, “Our power is great,
and the Lord has not done all this!”’
Psalms 42:10
42:10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone,
as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 79:10
79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants
be avenged among the nations!
Psalms 115:2
115:2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Ezekiel 20:9
20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation,
so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived,
before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Micah 7:10
7:10 When my enemies see this, they will be covered with shame.
They say to me, “Where is the Lord your God?”
I will gloat over them.
Then they will be trampled down
like mud in the streets.
Matthew 27:43
27:43 H
e trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”