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Myles Coverdale Bible

Psalms 44:20

That thou smytest vs so in the place of the serpet, & couerest vs with ye shadowe of death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Forgetting God;   Idolatry;   Murmuring;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forgetting God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Korah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - El;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forget;   Forth;   God(s), Strange;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judaism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 24;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If we had forgotten the name of our Godand spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Hebrew Names Version
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
King James Version
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
English Standard Version
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
New Century Version
If we had forgotten our God or lifted our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
New English Translation
If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,
Amplified Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
New American Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,
World English Bible
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
Geneva Bible (1587)
If wee haue forgotten the Name of our God, and holden vp our hands to a strange god,
Legacy Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our GodOr spread our hands to a strange god,
Berean Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Contemporary English Version
We did not forget you or lift our hands in prayer to foreign gods.
Complete Jewish Bible
though you pressed us into a lair of jackals and covered us with death-dark gloom.
Darby Translation
If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,
Easy-to-Read Version
Did we forget the name of our God? Did we pray to foreign gods?
George Lamsa Translation
And yet we have not forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to stranger gods;
Good News Translation
If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,
Lexham English Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,
Literal Translation
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and have spread our hands to an alien god,
American Standard Version
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
Bible in Basic English
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
King James Version (1611)
If wee haue forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange God:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?
English Revised Version
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou hast maad vs lowe in the place of turment; and the schadewe of deth hilide vs.
Update Bible Version
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
Webster's Bible Translation
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
New King James Version
If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
New Living Translation
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
New Life Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or put out our hands to a strange god,
New Revised Standard
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
Douay-Rheims Bible
(43-21) If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
Revised Standard Version
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
Young's Literal Translation
If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
THE MESSAGE
If we had forgotten to pray to our God or made fools of ourselves with store-bought gods, Wouldn't God have figured this out? We can't hide things from him. No, you decided to make us martyrs, lambs assigned for sacrifice each day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,

Contextual Overview

17 For the voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer, for the enemie and auenger. 18 All this is come vpon vs, & yet haue we not forgotten the, ner behaued oure selues vnfaithfully in thy couenaunt. 19 Oure hert is not turned backe, nether oure steppes gone out of thy waye. 20 That thou smytest vs so in the place of the serpet, & couerest vs with ye shadowe of death. 21 Yf we had forgotten the name of oure God, & holde vp oure hondes to eny straunge God: Shulde not God fynde it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the hert. 22 But for thy sake we are kylled all the daie longe, and are counted as shepe apoynted to be slayne. 23 Vp LORDE, why slepest thou? Awake, and cast vs not of for euer. 24 Wherfore hydest thou thy face? wilt thou clene forget oure misery and oppressio? 25 For oure soule is brought lowe euen vnto the dust, and oure bely cleueth vnto the grounde. 26 Arise o LORDE, helpe vs, and delyuer vs for thy mercie sake.

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
But as hir soule was departynge, yt she must dye, she called him Ben Oni: neuertheles his father called hi Be Iamin.
Genesis 37:3
Israel loued Ioseph more the all his childre because he had begotte him in his olde age, and he made him a cote of many coloures.
Genesis 37:19
and sayde one to another: Lo, there cometh the dreamer,
Genesis 42:13
They answered him: We thy seruauntes are twolue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lade of Canaan, and the yongest is with oure father: as for one, he is awaye.
Genesis 42:36
Then sayde Iacob their father: Ye haue robbed me of my children. Ioseph is awaye, Simeon is awaye, and ye will take Ben Iamin awaye: It goeth all ouer me.
Genesis 42:38
He sayde: my sonne shal not go downe with you: for his brother is deed, and he is left alone. Yf eny mysfortune shulde happen vnto him by the waye yt ye go, ye shulde bringe my graye hayre with sorowe downe vnto the graue.
Genesis 44:7
They answered him: Wherfore saieth my lorde soch wordes? God forbyd, that thy seruauntes shulde do eny soch thinge?
Genesis 44:8
Beholde, the money that we foude in oure sackes mouthes, that brought we vnto the agayne, out of the lande of Canaan: how shulde we then haue stollen either syluer or golde out of thy lordes house?
Genesis 44:27
Then sayde thy seruaunt my father vnto vs: Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes,
Genesis 44:30
Yf I now come home vnto my father, & the lad be not with me (seynge his soule hangeth by the soule of this)

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 GodThat 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.


 
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