Psalms 44:20

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

Psalms 44:20 in Other Translations

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

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

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,

20 If we had forgotten to pray to our God or made fools of ourselves with store-bought gods,

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

20 If we forgot the name of our God or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,

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

20 We didn't forget our God. We didn't spread out our hands in prayer to a strange god.

Psalms 44:20 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 44:20

If we have forgotten the name of our God
As antichrist, and the antichristian party did in those times, ( Daniel 11:36 Daniel 11:37 ) ;

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 Daniel 11:39 ) ( Revelation 9:21 ) .

Psalms 44:20 In-Context

18 Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.

19 But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.

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

21 would not God have discovered it, 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Deuteronomy 32:18; S Judges 3:7; Psalms 78:11
• 2. S Exodus 20:3; Isaiah 43:12; Jeremiah 5:19; Deuteronomy 6:14; Psalms 81:9