Bible Strands
Psalms 44:17
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks to God, recounting national suffering brought by enemies and revilers while asserting Israel's ongoing fidelity during the crisis.
The words — כָּל־זֹאת (kol-zot) translates literally as "all this," and שִׁקַּרְנוּ בִּבְרִיתֶךָ (shiqar-nu bi-vri-te-kha) means "we had dealt falsely with your covenant."
The thread — The warning against forgetting God appears in Deuteronomy 6:12 and Deuteronomy 8:14, while the covenant fidelity theme intersects with Daniel 9:13, which records disaster striking a people who have not turned from their iniquities.
Why it lands — The text requires a reader to separate suffering from covenant betrayal, demanding honest lament without presuming that hardship proves God has abandoned or rejected the speaker.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Cross-references
- Daniel 9:13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
- Deuteronomy 6:12 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Deuteronomy 8:14 then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Psalms 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
- Psalms 44:20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- Psalms 78:7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
- Psalms 78:57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
- Isaiah 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
- Jeremiah 2:32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
- Jeremiah 31:32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.