Psalms 44:20
ContextNETBible | If we had rejected our God, 1 and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, 2 |
XREF | Ex 9:29; 1Ki 8:22; Job 11:13; Job 31:5-40; Ps 7:3-5; Ps 44:17; Ps 68:31 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “If we had forgotten the name of our God.” To “forget the name” here refers to rejecting the 2 tn 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, TDOT 4:54-55). |