Psalms 44:20

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands [in prayer] to a foreign god,

Psalms 44:20 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 44:20

If we have forgotten the name of our God
As antichrist, and the antichristian party did in those times, ( Daniel 11:36 Daniel 11:37 ) ;

or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
as not to any of the Heathen deities under the Pagan persecutions, so not to any images of gold, silver, brass, and wood, under the Papal tyranny; not to the Virgin Mary, nor to angels and saints departed; nor to the breaden God in the mass, never heard of before; see ( Daniel 11:38 Daniel 11:39 ) ( Revelation 9:21 ) .

Psalms 44:20 In-Context

18 Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way.

19 But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands [in prayer] to a foreign god,

21 would not God discover this, for he knows [the] secrets of [the] heart?

22 Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long}; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.