Psalms 44:20

What does Psalms 44:20 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 44:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Not available in this translation

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

If we had forgotten the name of ourGod, and stretched out our hands to a strangegod,

Context

v.19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

v.20This passage

v.21Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 31:5

    If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

  • Job 11:13

    If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;

  • 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 Jehovah; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah’s.

  • Psalms 68:31

    Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God.

  • Psalms 44:17

    All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

  • Psalms 78:11

    And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.

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