34 And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
34 and did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
34 And the people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,
34 The People of Israel forgot all about God, their God, who had saved them from all their enemies who had hemmed them in.
34 Thus the children of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side;
34 They forgot the Lord their God, who had rescued them from all their enemies surrounding them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 8:34
Commentary on Judges 8:29-35
(Read Judges 8:29-35)
As soon as Gideon was dead, who kept the people to the worship of the God of Israel, they found themselves under no restraint; then they went after Baalim, and showed no kindness to the family of Gideon. No wonder if those who forget their God, forget their friends. Yet conscious of our own ingratitude to the Lord, and observing that of mankind in general, we should learn to be patient under any unkind returns we meet with for our poor services, and resolve, after the Divine example, not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good.