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20If we have forgotten{H8804)} the name of our God, or stretched out{H8799)} our hands to a strange{H8801)} god;
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There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-26)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 which he will certainly be the rewarder of. Two things they call God to witness to:— 1. That, though they suffered these hard things, yet they kept close to God and to their duty (Ps. 44:17): “ All th…
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