Psalms 44:18

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

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] taunter and [the] reviler, because of [the] enemy and [the] avenger.
17 All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.
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,
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