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Psalm 44:16-18
New English Translation

16 before the vindictive enemy
who ridicules and insults me.[a]
17 All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you[b]
or violated your covenant with us.[c]
18 We have not been unfaithful,[d]
nor have we disobeyed your commands.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:16 tn Heb “from the voice of one who ridicules and insults, from the face of an enemy and an avenger.” See Ps 8:2.
  2. Psalm 44:17 tn Heb “we have not forgotten you.” To “forget” God refers here to worshiping false gods and thereby refusing to recognize his sovereignty (see v. 20, as well as Deut 8:19; Judg 3:7; 1 Sam 12:9; Isa 17:10; Jer 3:21; Ps 9:17).Thus the translation “we have not rejected you” has been used.
  3. Psalm 44:17 tn Heb “and we did not deal falsely with your covenant.”
  4. Psalm 44:18 tn Heb “our heart did not turn backward.” Cf. Ps 78:57.
  5. Psalm 44:18 tn Heb “and our steps did [not] turn aside from your path.” The negative particle is understood by ellipsis (see the preceding line). God’s “path” refers to his commands, i.e., the moral pathway he has prescribed for the psalmist. See Pss 17:5; 25:4.
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