Verse (Click for Chapter) 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; Contemporary English Version We did not forget you or lift our hands in prayer to foreign gods. 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, Majority Standard Bible If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, NET Bible If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another 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, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionIf we have forgotten the Name of our God, "" And spread 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, Smith's Literal Translation If we forgat the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIf we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god : Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible If we had forgotten the name of our God, stretched out our hands 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, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd yet we have not forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to stranger gods; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And we do not forget The Name of our God, neither have we stretched our hands to foreign gods. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; 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? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible 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 13:6-10 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known, / the gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, whether from one end of the earth or the other), / you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him. ... Exodus 20:3-5 You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, Jeremiah 11:10 They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers. Hosea 13:2 Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!” 1 Kings 11:4-8 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. / Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. / So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely. ... Isaiah 44:17-20 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.” / They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand. / And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?” ... 2 Kings 17:35-41 For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them. / Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him. / And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods. ... Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations. Judges 2:11-13 And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. 2 Chronicles 33:3-7 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven. / Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” / In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven. ... Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Acts 17:29-30 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination. / Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. 1 Corinthians 8:4-6 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. / For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords), / yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist. 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: Jump to Previous Extended Foreign Forgotten Forth Hands Minds Spread Strange StretchedJump to Next Extended Foreign Forgotten Forth Hands Minds Spread Strange StretchedPsalm 44 1. The church, in memory of former favors7. complains of her present evils 17. professing her integrity, 24. she fervently prays for helpfulness If we had forgotten The phrase "forgotten" in Hebrew is "שָׁכַח" (shakach), which implies a willful neglect or a lapse in memory. In the context of ancient Israel, forgetting God was not merely an intellectual oversight but a spiritual failure to remember His covenant and commandments. This highlights the importance of intentional remembrance and faithfulness in the believer's life, emphasizing that spiritual amnesia can lead to idolatry and a departure from God's ways. the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’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 Links Psalm 44:20 NIVPsalm 44:20 NLT Psalm 44:20 ESV Psalm 44:20 NASB Psalm 44:20 KJV Psalm 44:20 BibleApps.com Psalm 44:20 Biblia Paralela Psalm 44:20 Chinese Bible Psalm 44:20 French Bible Psalm 44:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 44:20 If we have forgotten the name (Psalm Ps Psa.) |