诗篇 44:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

如果我們忘記了我們　神的名，或是向別神伸手禱告；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
倘 若 我 们 忘 了 　 神 的 名 ， 或 向 别 神 举 手 ，

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ All these things have happened to us, but we have not forgotten you or failed to keep our agreement with you. ¹⁸ Our hearts haven't turned away from you, and we haven't stopped following you. ¹⁹ But you crushed us in this place where wild dogs live, and you covered us with deep darkness. ²⁰ If we had forgotten our God or lifted our hands in prayer to foreign gods, ²¹ God would have known, because he knows what is in our hearts. ²² But for you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed. ²³ Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don't reject us forever. ²⁴ Why do you hide from us? Have you forgotten our pain and troubles? ²⁵ We have been pushed down into the dirt; we are flat on the ground. ²⁶ Get up and help us. Because of your love, save us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If we: Psalms 44:17, Psalms 7:3-5, Job 31:5-40

stretched: Psalms 68:31, Exodus 9:29, 1 Kings 8:22, Job 11:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:15 - and putteth Deuteronomy 32:18 - forgotten Job 13:23 - many Job 20:27 - heaven Job 31:7 - If my Psalms 9:17 - forget Psalms 69:5 - and my sins Psalms 88:9 - stretched Psalms 119:168 - for all my Psalms 143:6 - stretch forth 2 Corinthians 6:14 - for 1 John 3:20 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 35:18
Rachel gave birth to the son, but she herself died. As she lay dying, she named the boy Son of My Suffering, but Jacob called him Benjamin.

Genesis 37:3
Since Joseph was born when his father Israel was old, Israel loved him more than his other sons. He made Joseph a special robe with long sleeves.

Genesis 37:19
They said to each other, "Here comes that dreamer.

Genesis 42:13
And they said, "We are ten of twelve brothers, sons of the same father, and we live in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is there with our father right now, and our other brother is gone."

Genesis 42:36
Their father Jacob said to them, "You are robbing me of all my children. Joseph is gone, Simeon is gone, and now you want to take Benjamin away, too. Everything is against me."

Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, "I will not allow Benjamin to go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only son left from my wife Rachel. I am afraid something terrible might happen to him during the trip to Egypt. Then I would be sad until the day I die."

Genesis 44:7
But the brothers said to the servant, "Why do you say these things? We would not do anything like that!

Genesis 44:8
We brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found in our sacks. So surely we would not steal silver or gold from your master's house.

Genesis 44:27
Then my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife Rachel gave me two sons.

Genesis 44:30
Now what will happen if we go home to our father without our youngest brother? He is so important in our father's life that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If we have forgotten the name of our God,.... As antichrist, and the antichristian party did in those times, Daniel 11:36;

or stretched out our hands to a strange god; as not to any of the Heathen deities under the Pagan persecutions, so not to any images of gold, silver, brass, and wood, under the Papal tyranny; not to the Virgin Mary, nor to angels and saints departed; nor to the breaden God in the mass, never heard of before; see Daniel 11:38.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If we have forgotten the name of our God - That is, if we have apostatized from him.

Or stretched out our hands to a strange god - Or have been guilty of idolatry. The act of stretching out the hands, or spreading forth the hands, was significant of worship or prayer: 1Ki 8:22; 2 Chronicles 6:12-13; see the notes at Isaiah 1:15. The idea here is, that this was not the cause or reason of their calamities; that if this had occurred, it would have been a sufficient reason for what had taken place; but that no such cause actually existed, and therefore the reason must be found in something else. It was the fact of such calamities having come upon the nation when no such cause existed, that perplexed the author of the psalm, and led to the conclusion in his own mind Psalms 44:22 that these calamities were produced by the malignant designs of the enemies of the true religion, and that, instead of their suffering for their national sins, they were really martyrs in the cause of God, and were suffering for his sake.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 44:20. If we have forgotten the name of our God — That name, יהוה Jehovah, by which the true God was particularly distinguished, and which implied the exclusion of all other objects of adoration.

Or stretched out our hands — Made supplication; offered prayer or adoration to any strange god - a god that we had not known, nor had been acknowledged by our fathers. It has already been remarked, that from the time of the Babylonish captivity the Jews never relapsed into idolatry.

It was customary among the ancients, while praying, to stretch out their hands towards the heavens, or the image they were worshipping, as if they expected to receive the favour they were asking.