Psalm 44:20
New International Version
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread 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,

English Standard Version
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Berean Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

King James Bible
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 American Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,

NASB 1995
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,

NASB 1977
If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or extended our hands to a strange god;

Legacy Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or spread our hands to a strange god,

Amplified Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God Or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Christian Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God and spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God and spread out our hands to a foreign god,

American Standard Version
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And we do not forget The Name of our God, neither have we stretched our hands to foreign gods.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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?

Contemporary English Version
We did not forget you or lift our hands in prayer to foreign gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god :

English Revised Version
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If we forgot the name of our God or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,

Good News Translation
If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,

International Standard Version
If we had forgotten the name of our God or lifted our hands to a foreign god,

JPS Tanakh 1917
If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

Literal Standard Version
If we have forgotten the Name of our God, | And spread our hands to a strange God,

Majority Standard Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

New American Bible
If we had forgotten the name of our God, stretched out our hands to another god,

NET Bible
If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

New Revised Standard Version
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,

New Heart English Bible
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;

World English Bible
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out 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,

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Context
Redeem Us
19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness. 20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, 21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:14
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

Psalm 78:11
They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

Psalm 81:9
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.


Treasury of Scripture

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

If we

Psalm 44:17
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Psalm 7:3-5
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; …

Job 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

stretched

Psalm 68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Exodus 9:29
And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S.

1 Kings 8:22
And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

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Psalm 44
1. The church, in memory of former favors
7. complains of her present evils
17. professing her integrity,
24. she fervently prays for helpfulness














Verse 20. - If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out (rather, spread out) our hands to a strange god. If Israel had either forgotten the true God (see above, ver. 17) or fallen away to the worship of false or strange gods - then her ill success against her foreign enemies would have been fully accounted for, since it would only have been in accordance with the threatenings of the Law (Leviticus 26:14-17; Deuteronomy 28:15-23); but as she had done neither of these things, her defeats and depressed condition seemed to the psalmist wholly unaccountable. We trace here the same current belief, which comes out so strongly in the Book of Job - the belief that calamities were, almost of necessity, punishments for sin; and that when they occurred, and there had been no known precedent misconduct, the case was abnormal and extraordinary.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’i·mō·šā-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

we had forgotten
שָׁ֭כַחְנוּ (ḵaḥ·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

the name
שֵׁ֣ם (šêm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8034: A name

of our God
אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

or spread out
וַנִּפְרֹ֥שׂ (wan·nip̄·rōś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 6566: To break apart, disperse

our hands
כַּ֝פֵּ֗ינוּ (kap·pê·nū)
Noun - fdc | first person common plural
Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan

to a foreign
זָֽר׃ (zār)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

god,
לְאֵ֣ל (lə·’êl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty


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