Psalms 79:10
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Psalm 79 is a post-Davidic psalm connected with the Babylonian captivity, giving voice to the sorrow and desolation of the captives as well as to their longing and prayers for deliverance. The verse belongs to a psalm especially applicable to that captivity, when Jerusalem had been brought low and its people scattered abroad.
The heathen raise their taunt about the whereabouts of their God because they cannot see Him with their eyes, and that very challenge shows that an unconscious principle of life cannot be the living and personal God who gives life and breath. If God were unconscious and without personal being, His existence and presence could rightly be called into question, so the question itself proves that He is a living, personal being distinct from His attributes and gifts, which are not themselves God.