Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our hands to a strange god,

King James Version

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Holman Bible

If we had forgotten the name of our God
and spread out our hands to a foreign god,

International Standard Version

If we had forgotten the name of our God or lifted our hands to a foreign god,

A Conservative Version

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,

American Standard Version

If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

Amplified


If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Bible in Basic English

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Darby Translation

If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Julia Smith Translation

If we forgat the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god:

King James 2000

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god,

NET Bible

If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

New Heart English Bible

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

The Emphasized Bible

If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,

Webster

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

World English Bible

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

Youngs Literal Translation

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

Verse Info

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

19 You crushed us in a place for jackals and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our hands to a strange god,
21 would God not find out, since he knows the secrets in our hearts?

Cross References

Job 11:13

Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,

Psalm 68:31

Ambassadors will come from Egypt. Sudan will stretch out its hands to God in prayer.

Psalm 81:9

You must have no strange god among you. Do not worship any foreign god.

Exodus 9:29

Moses said to him: As soon as I go out of the city, I will lift up my hands in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder will stop. There will be no more hail. Thus you may know that the earth belongs to Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 6:14

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

1 Kings 8:22

In the presence of the people Solomon stood in front of the altar. He raised his arms

Job 31:5-40

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit

Psalm 7:3-5

O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Psalm 44:17

Although all of this happened to us, we never forgot you. We never ignored your promise.

Psalm 78:11

They forgot his deeds and his miracles that he had shown them.

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