The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 44:21

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Shall not God search this out! i.e. visit for it—punish it. Such a result was to be expected. But when there had been no precedent idolatry, no neglect of the worship of Jehovah, what then? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Secret idolatry would, of course, explain the state of things; but the writer evidently knows of no secret idolatry.

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