Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god, in open idolatry,
If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god, in open idolatry,
Verse Psalms 44:20. _IF WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF OUR GOD_] _That name_, יהוה Jehovah, by which the true God was particularly distinguished, and which implied the exclusion of all other objects of...
IF WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF OUR GOD - That is, if we have apostatized from him. OR STRETCHED OUT OUR HANDS TO A STRANGE GOD - Or have been guilty of idolatry. The act of stretching out the hands,...
Psalms 44 The Increased Cry for Deliverance _ 1. My King, O God! Command deliverances (Psalms 44:1)_ 2. Trouble upon trouble and confusion (Psalms 44:9) 3. Awake! Arise for our help! ...
XLIV. A NATIONAL PRAYER IN UNMERITED DISTRESS. The Ps. evidently depicts the situation of Israel under Antiochus Epiphanes [but see OTJC 2, pp. 207f., 437- 440. A. S. P.] So much was plain long ago to...
NAME. See note on Psalms 20:1. GOD. Hebrew El. Quoted in App-4....
The calamity is unmerited. No unfaithfulness to God's covenant has called for punishment. Nay it is for His sake that His people are suffering....
_stretched out_ R.V., spread forth: the gesture of prayer being not, as with us, _folded_hands, but the hands extended with open palms: the Lat. -manibus passis." Cp. Psalms 143:6; 1Ki 8:22; 1 Kings 8...
PSALMS 44 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Israel Suffers for God. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 44:1-8, The Psalmist, Encouraging himself by Jehovah's Past Favour in Giving Israel their Land, Emboldens himself to E...
_IF WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF OUR GOD, OR STRETCHED OUT OUR HANDS TO A STRANGE GOD;_ If we have forgotten the name of our God ... shall not God search this out? They confirm the truth of their as...
This is a prayer for deliverance from national trouble which has not been deserved by any apostasy or idolatry. The strong assertions of national faithfulness are akin to the spirit of the Maccabean a...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
_[Psalms 44:21]_ אִם ־שָׁ֭כַחְנוּ שֵׁ֣ם אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וַ...
Psalms 44:1 CALVIN says that the authorship of this psalm is uncertain, but that it is abundantly clear that it was composed by anyone rather than David, and that its plaintive contents suit best the...
A PLEA FOR PRESENT HELP Psalms 44:9 In Psalms 44:11 God's people are compared to sheep appointed for meat, which are sold by the shepherd for naught, so worthless are they. Before their savage foes s...
The final meaning of this psalm is discovered in its last four verses. It is a prayer for deliverance from defeat. Its strength of appeal lies in its recognition of the government of God. He is the Au...
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a (p) strange god; (p) They show that they honoured God correctly, because they trusted in him alone....
The apostle seems to have had this scripture in his view, and referred it to the times in which he lived, when, after pointing out the heavy afflictions the church then endured, he quotes a part of th...
Psalms 44 gives a full and vivid picture of the state of the nation, as in the conscience of the remnant. They had heard with their ears. Faith rested in the memorial of all the old mighty deliverance...
IF WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF OUR GOD,.... As antichrist, and the antichristian party did in those times, Daniel 11:36; OR STRETCHED OUT OUR HANDS TO A STRANGE GOD; as not to any of the Heathen de...
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Ver. 20. _If we have forgotten the name of our God_] _i.e._ Foregone our religion, as renegadoes, denying the Lo...
_Thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons_ By inflicting upon us one breach after another, thou hast at last brought us to this pass; that we are become like a place extremely desolate, such a...
17-26 In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful compliance; but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and knowledge of our heart-searching God. Hearts sins and secret sins are...
_ In the place_: or rather _into_, as others render it; which seems much more emphatical. And so this verb may be rendered, _thou hast humbled_, or _brought us down_, as all the ancients rendered it....
Psalms 44:20 forgotten H7911 (H8804) name H8034 God H430 out H6566 (H8799) hands H3709 foreign H2114 ...
THE PSALMIST NOW ADMITS THAT POSSIBLY THEY HAVE BEEN AT FAULT (PSALMS 44:20). Psalms 44:20 ‘If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god, Will not God searc...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the Lord's apparent forgetfulness and entreaty for His help. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The tokens of God's displeasure are more grievous to those who have been lo...
Psalms 44:1. _Our fathers have told us._ All ancient patriarchs instructed their children, and all ancient nations instructed posterity by oral traditions, as in this psalm, by reciting how Joshua dro...
_We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what work Thou didst._ ASPECTS OF NATIONAL PIETY There is such a thing as national piety. I mean the aggregation of genuine godly though...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 44:1. This is a hymn for times when God’s people as a whole have suffered some great calamity at the hands of their enemies. When the worshiping congregation sings this, the...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 44:17 The pain of the situation is especially sharp because the community claims not to have FORGOTTEN God or to have been FALSE TO his COVENANT (v....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.” See introduction to Psalms 42. We have no means of determining who was the author of the psalm. Nor are we able...
EXPOSITION THE date and occasion of this psalm are greatly disputed. Most critics, from Calvin to Hitzig, refer it to the times of the Maccabees. Others suggest the fourth or fifth century B.C. One (T...
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in times of old. How you did drive out the heathen with thy hand, and you planted them; and how you did a...
1 Kings 8:22; Exodus 9:29; Job 11:13; Job 31:5; Psalms 44:17;...