If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
Parallel translations
- KJV If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
- BSB If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- NKJV If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
- NASB ¶If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,
- NLT If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 81:9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
- Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
- Ps 7:3–5Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
- Job 31:5–40“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
- Deut 6:14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;
- Ps 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
- Exod 9:29Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
- 1 Kgs 8:22Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;
- Ps 78:11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
- Ps 44:17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
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