Psalms 44:20

“If we have forgotten the name of our God, etc.] As antichrist, and the antichristian party did in those times, (<271136>Daniel 11:36,37); or stretched out our hands to a strange god; as not to any of the Heathen deities under the Pagan persecutions, so not to any images of gold, silver, brass, and wood, under the Papal tyranny; not to the Virgin Mary, nor to angels and saints departed; nor to the breaden God in the mass, never heard of before; (see <271138>Daniel 11:38,39 <660921>Revelation 9:21).”

“A solemn appeal to God to witness their constancy. stretched out . . . hands--gesture of worship (Exo 9:29; Psa 88:9).”

“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, or spreading forth the hands, was significant of worship or prayer: 1Ki 8:22; 2 Chronicles 6:12-13; see the notes at Isaiah 1:15. The idea here is, that this was not the cause or reason of their calamities; that if this had occurred, it would have been a sufficient reason for what had taken place; but that no such cause actually existed, and therefore the reason must be found in something else. It was the fact of such calamities having come upon the nation when no such cause existed, that…”

“If we: Psa 44:17, Psa 7:3-5; Job 31:5-40 stretched: Psa 68:31; Exo 9:29; Kg1 8:22; Job 11:13 Psalms 44:21”