Lexicon :: Strong's H346 - 'ayyê

Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “There, in the tent.”

“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;

Man breathes his last, and where is he?

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.

Where now is my hope?

And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble man?

And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?’

My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,

While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”

Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],

Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

O Lord, where are Your former lovingkindnesses [so abundant in the days of David and Solomon],

Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

Why should the nations say,

“Where, now, is their God?”

Your mind will meditate on the terror [asking]:

“Where is he who counts?

Where is he who weighs [the tribute]?

Where is he who counts the towers?”

That you have forgotten the LORD your Maker,

Who stretched out the heavens

And laid the foundations of the earth,

That you continually tremble with fear all day long because of the rage of the oppressor,

As he takes aim to destroy?

And where is the rage of the oppressor?

Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses [and they said],

Where is He who brought our fathers up out of the [Red] Sea, with the shepherds of His flock [Moses and Aaron]?

Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in their midst,

Look down from heaven and see from Your lofty dwelling place, holy and glorious.

Where are Your zeal and Your mighty acts [Your miracles which you did for Your people]?

The stirring of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained and withheld from me.

“They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD

Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,

Who led us through the wilderness,

Through a land of deserts and of pits,

Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death],

Through a land that no man passed through

And where no man lived?’

“[Even] the priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’

And those who deal with the law [given to Moses] did not know Me.

The rulers and shepherds also transgressed against Me,

And the prophets prophesied by [the authority and in the name of] Baal

And walked after [idolatrous] things that did not benefit [them].

“But where are your gods

Which you made for yourself?

Let them get up, if they can save you

In the time of your trouble!

For [as many as] the number of your cities

Are your gods, O Judah. [Why do not your many man-made idols run to help you?]

“Lift up your eyes and see

Those coming from the north.

Where is the flock that was given to you [to shepherd],

Your beautiful flock?

Behold, they keep saying to me,

“Where is the word of the LORD [that is, the disaster that you prophesied]?

Let it come now!”

They cry to their mothers,

“Where is grain and wine?”

As they faint like a wounded man

In the streets of the city,

As their life [slips away and] is poured out

In their mothers’ arms.

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?’”

Then my enemy [all the pagan nations] shall see it,

And shame [for despising the LORD] will cover her who said to me,

“Where is the LORD your God?”

My eyes will look on her [with satisfaction at her judgment];

Now she (unbelievers) will be trampled down

Like mud of the streets.

Where is the den of the lions (Assyria)

And the feeding place of the young lions,

Where the lion, lioness, and lion’s cub prowled

With nothing to fear?

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is the [reverent] fear and respect due Me?’ says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name. But you say, ‘How and in what way have we despised Your name?’

You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them,” or [by asking], “Where is the God of justice?”