Psalm 44:18

Translations

Modern

Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Traditional

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Literal

Our heart has not turned back, nor our steps turned aside from Your path.

Latin

Et non recessit retro cor nostrum; et declinasti semitas nostras a via tua:

Original

Hebrew

English

Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Notes

Psalms 44:1–26

This national lament after a defeat in battle continues the tone of the previous two psalms. It reflects on an unspecified moment in Israel's history and calls on God for salvation. The people:

recite God's past acts of rescue (Psalm 44:1–3),
recognize God's power to save (Psalm 44:4–8),
describe their humiliation in exile (Psalm 44:9–16),
claim their innocence and lament the injustice of their current situation (Psalm 44:17–22), and
cry for vindication (Psalm 44:23–26).

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You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.

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