Psalms 44:20
18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
19 But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
22 Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- KJV
- If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
- WEB
- If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
- ASV
- If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
- DARBY
- If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange God,
- BLB
- If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a strange god,
- ÅB
- Dersom vi hadde glemt vår Guds navn og utbredt våre hender til en fremmed gud,
- OTB
- Hvis vi hadde glemt navnet på vår Gud
Eller rakt ut til en fremmed gud, - B1930
- Dersom vi hadde glemt vår Guds navn og utbredt våre hender til en fremmed gud,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 81:9
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
Read in contextJob 11:13
As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:14
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
Read in contextPsalms 7:3–5
O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
Read in contextPsalms 68:31
Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.
Read in contextJob 31:5–40
If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
Read in contextExodus 9:29
Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
Read in context1 Kings 8:22
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
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