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Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 44:20

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

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,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That thou smytest vs so in the place of the serpet, & couerest vs with ye shadowe of death.
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,
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 All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant. 18 We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path. 19 But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God, 21 Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter. 23 Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever. 24 Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression, 25 For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly. 26 Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' 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
And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;
Genesis 37:3
And Israel hath loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he [is] a son of his old age, and hath made for him a long coat;
Genesis 37:19
And they say one unto another, `Lo, this man of the dreams cometh;
Genesis 42:13
and they say, `Thy servants [are] twelve brethren; we [are] sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one [is] with our father to-day, and the one is not.'
Genesis 42:36
and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'
Genesis 42:38
and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother [is] dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'
Genesis 44:7
and they say unto him, `Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word;
Genesis 44:8
lo, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back unto thee from the land of Canaan, and how do we steal from the house of thy lord silver or gold?
Genesis 44:27
`And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye -- ye have known that two did my wife bare to me,
Genesis 44:30
`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

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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