<p class="poetry">Why should the nations say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Do not start following pagan religious practices.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not be in awe of signs that occur<n id="2" /> in the skyp> <p class="poetry">even though the nations hold them in awe.p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone should revere you, O King of all nations,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because you deserve to be revered.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For there is no one like youp> <p class="poetry">among any of the wise people of the nations nor among any of their kings.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let the nations be roused and let them go upp> <p class="poetry">to the valley of Jehoshaphat,p> <p class="poetry">for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations.p>

I will also shake up all the nations, and they<n id="1" /> will offer their treasures;<n id="2" /> then I will fill this temple with glory,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> demonstrates his power to deliver;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in the sight of the nations he reveals his justice.p>

<p class="poetry">The nations&#8217; idols are made of silver and gold,p> <p class="poetry">they are man-made.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">All the nations are insignificant before him;p> <p class="poetry">they are regarded as absolutely nothing.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Hear, you nations!p> <p class="poetry">Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.<n id="2" />p>

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.p>

<p class="bodytext">These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread<n id="1" /> over the earth after the flood.p>

If you think, &#8220;These nations are more numerous than I &#8211; how can I dispossess them?&#8221;

then he<n id="1" /> will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

This is why<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately;<n id="2" /> he did not hand them over to Joshua.p>

We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us<n id="1" /> and fight our battles.&#8221;p>

Have any of the gods of the nations actually rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?<n id="1" />

It is true, <sc>Lordsc>, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations<n id="2" /> whom the <sc>Lordsc> drove out from before the Israelites.

<p class="bodytext">So David became famous<n id="1" /> in all the lands; the <sc>Lordsc> caused all the nations to fear him.<n id="2" />p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations<n id="2" /> whom the <sc>Lordsc> drove out ahead of the Israelites.