Psalms Chapter 44 verse 20 Holy Bible
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
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If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
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If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange ùgod,
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
