Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 44:18
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Our heart is not turned back – That is, We have not turned away from thy service; we have not apostatized from thee; we have not fallen into idolatry. This must mean that such was not at that time the characteristic of the nation; it was not a prominent thing among the people; there was no such general and pervading iniquity as to explain the fact that these calamities had come upon them, or to be properly the cause of these troubles.
Neither have our steps declined from thy way – Margin, goings. The idea as expressed by our translators is, that the people had not departed from the path prescribed by God; that is, from what he required in his law. The Septuagint and the Vulgate render it, Thou hast turned our steps from thy way; that is, though our heart is not turned back, and we have not revolted from thee, yet thou hast turned our steps from thy way, or hast turned us from the way of thy favor and from prosperity. The rendering in the common version, however, is more in conformity with the idea in the original.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Is not turned back, to wit, from thee, or thy worship and service, unto idols, as it follows, Psa 44:20.
Neither have our steps declined from thy way: because it is easy and ordinary falsely to pretend sincerity of heart, which men cannot discern nor confute, they prove it from the unblamableness of their lives and actions.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
18. declinedturned aside fromGod’s law.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Our heart is not turned back,…. To its original hardness, blindness, and bondage, to its former sin and folly, to cherish, gratify, and fulfil its lusts and desires; not from God, from love to him, faith in him, and desires after him; nor from his worship and service; their trials had no such influence upon them as to cause them to apostatize from God, neither in heart, nor in action;
neither have our steps declined from thy way; from the way of his commandments, from the paths of holiness, truth, and faith, being directed and guided therein by the counsel of the Lord, and kept and preserved by his power.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Ver. 18. Our heart is not turned back ] Metaphora a stadio, saith Vatablus. As those that run a race stand not at a stay, much less turn back again; so neither have we either stopped or stepped backward, but advanced still toward the mark, having Nondum metam, We have not yet attained, for our motto, as St Paul had, Phi 3:12 ; being in nothing terrified by our adversaries, nor afraid with any amazement, Phi 1:28 1Pe 3:6 .
Neither have our steps declined
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
steps = goings. Plural in many codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate; but some codices, with nine early printed editions, read singular.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
heart: Psa 78:57, Psa 125:5, 1Ki 15:5, Job 34:27, Jer 11:10, Zep 1:6, Luk 17:32
have: Psa 119:51, Psa 119:157, Job 23:11, Job 23:12, 1Co 15:58, 1Th 2:10
steps: or, goings
Reciprocal: Psa 37:31 – steps Psa 78:37 – stedfast Pro 4:5 – neither Isa 26:8 – in Heb 10:39 – we are