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Psalms 44:20

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

KJV

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

ASV

כִּ֣י דִ֭כִּיתָ/נוּ בִּ/מְק֣וֹם תַּנִּ֑ים וַ/תְּכַ֖ס עָלֵ֣י/נוּ בְ/צַלְמָֽוֶת

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דכה
dkh
verb · 6×
וֹ
v
noun · 398×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מְכַסֶּ֣ה
mksh
verb · 152×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צַלְמָֽוֶת
tslmvt
noun · 18×
תַנִּֽין
tnyn
noun · 26×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1John 3:20 — For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
  • 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • Deut 6:14 — Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
  • Deut 27:15 — Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and sa
  • Deut 32:18 — Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
  • Job 11:13 — If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
  • Job 13:23 — How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
  • Job 31:5 — If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
  • Job 31:5 — If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
  • Ps 7:3 — O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
  • Ps 9:17 — The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
  • Ps 68:31 — Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
  • Ps 68:31 — Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
  • Ps 69:5 — O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
  • Ps 81:9 — There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
  • Ps 81:9 — There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
  • Ps 119:168 — I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
  • Ps 143:6 — I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.