If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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Gill's Exposition
If we have forgotten the name of our God,.... As antichrist, and the antichristian party did in those times, Dan 11:36;
or stretched out our hands to a strange god; as not to any of the Heathen…
Barnes' Notes
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,…
The people of God, being greatly afflicted and oppressed, here apply to him; whither else should they go?
I. By way of appeal, concerning their integrity, which he only is an infallible judge of, and…
Cambridge Bible
stretched out R.V., spread forth: the gesture of prayer being not, as with us, foldedhands, but the hands extended with open palms: the Lat. -manibus passis." Cp. Psa 143:6; 1Ki 8:22; 1Ki 8:38; 1Ki…
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