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Psalm 44:20

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44:20If we had rejected our God,48

and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,49

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Footnotes

  1. 48 Heb “If we had forgotten the name of our God.” To “forget the name” here refers to rejecting the Lord’s authority (see Jer 23:27) and abandoning him as an object of prayer and worship (see the next line).
  2. 49 Heb “and spread out your hands to another god.” Spreading out the hands was a prayer gesture (see Exod 9:29, 33; 1 Kgs 8:22, 38; 2 Chr 6:12–13, 29; Ezra 9:15; Job 11:13; Isa 1:15). In its most fundamental sense זר (“another; foreign; strange”) refers to something that is outside one’s circle, often making association with it inappropriate. A “strange” god is an alien deity, an “outside god” (see L. A. Snijders, 4:54–55).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If we had forgotten the name of our God

and spread out our hands to a foreign god,

NLTNew Living Translation

If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If we had forgotten the name of our God,

or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,

KJV 1900King James Version

If we have forgotten the name of our God,

Or stretched out our hands to a strange god;