Psalms 44:18

18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Psalms 44:18 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 44:18

Our heart is not turned back
To its original hardness, blindness, and bondage, to its former sin and folly, to cherish, gratify, and fulfil its lusts and desires; not from God, from love to him, faith in him, and desires after him; nor from his worship and service; their trials had no such influence upon them as to cause them to apostatize from God, neither in heart, nor in action; neither have our steps declined from thy way;
from the way of his commandments, from the paths of holiness, truth, and faith, being directed and guided therein by the counsel of the Lord, and kept and preserved by his power.

Psalms 44:18 In-Context

16 because of the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this has happened to us, but we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
19 But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest darkness.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God and spread out our hands to a foreign god,
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