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Psalms 44:20
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If we had forgotten the name of our Godand spread out our hands to a foreign god,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
If we had forgotten our God or lifted our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
If wee haue forgotten the Name of our God, and holden vp our hands to a strange god,
If we had forgotten the name of our GodOr spread our hands to a strange god,
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
We did not forget you or lift our hands in prayer to foreign gods.
though you pressed us into a lair of jackals and covered us with death-dark gloom.
If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,
Did we forget the name of our God? Did we pray to foreign gods?
And yet we have not forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to stranger gods;
If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and have spread our hands to an alien god,
That thou smytest vs so in the place of the serpet, & couerest vs with ye shadowe of death.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
If wee haue forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange God:
If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god:
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?
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
For thou hast maad vs lowe in the place of turment; and the schadewe of deth hilide vs.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or put out our hands to a strange god,
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
(43-21) If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
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.
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,
Contextual Overview
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
Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named the baby Ben-oni (which means "son of my sorrow"). The baby's father, however, called him Benjamin (which means "son of my right hand").
Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe.
"Here comes the dreamer!" they said.
"Sir," they said, "there are actually twelve of us. We, your servants, are all brothers, sons of a man living in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is back there with our father right now, and one of our brothers is no longer with us."
Jacob exclaimed, "You are robbing me of my children! Joseph is gone! Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin, too. Everything is going against me!"
But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on your journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave."
"What are you talking about?" the brothers responded. "We are your servants and would never do such a thing!
Didn't we return the money we found in our sacks? We brought it back all the way from the land of Canaan. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
"Then my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife had two sons,
"And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father's life is bound up in the boy's life.
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.
