Psalms 44:21
Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
In Context
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
22Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Cross References
Job 31:4Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?
Job 34:21For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
Ecclesiastes 12:14For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'
Jeremiah 23:24Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Jehovah, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 4:5so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
Revelation 2:23and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you — to each — according to your works.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:18-26
Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the… Read the whole commentary →