Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 44 connects to 10 cross-references. A communal lament of the Korahites recalling how God drove out nations before Israel in the past but now has rejected and humbled his people before enemies despite their faithfulness to the covenant. The psalm ends with passionate appeal to …
Other Translations
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
Cross References
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children …
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because …
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have …
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to …
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of …
And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an …
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, …
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh …
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.