the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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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 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 spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
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
And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.
And they said one to another, Look, this dreamer comes.
And they said, We your slaves are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, look, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your slaves that they should do such a thing.
Look, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold?
And your slave my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:
Now therefore when I come to your slave my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad'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.
