“This is the mark of loyal servants, to persevere in serving their master despite their ill treatment.… This verse, too, teaches the listeners not to pretend but to serve God with their whole heart.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 44:8
Original
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
— Psalms 44:20 —
21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.