Psalms 44:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yes, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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  • Rom 8:36 : 36 As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.'
  • John 15:21 : 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.
  • John 16:2-3 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
  • 1 Cor 15:30-31 : 30 And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? 31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
  • Rev 11:3-9 : 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it does not rain in the days of their prophecy; and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire. 7 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be put in graves.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I marveled with great wonder.
  • 1 Sam 22:17-19 : 17 And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to attack the priests of the LORD. 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and attack the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five persons that wore a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, and oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
  • 1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 And he said, I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
  • Ps 44:11 : 11 You have given us like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.
  • Ps 79:2-3 : 2 The dead bodies of Your servants they have given to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he does not open his mouth.
  • Matt 5:10-12 : 10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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    35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

    36As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.'

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  • Ps 44:11-13
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    11You have given us like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.

    12You sell Your people for nothing and do not increase Your wealth by their price.

    13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us.

  • Ps 44:23-25
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    23Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever.

    24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

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    9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

    10Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

    12So then, death works in us, but life in you.

  • Jer 12:3
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    3But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • Isa 53:6-7
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    6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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  • Ps 44:21
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    21Shall not God search this out? for He knows the secrets of the heart.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.

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    8For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

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    19Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

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    7But You have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

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    18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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    4Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.

  • Heb 11:37
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    5Through You will we push down our enemies: through Your name will we tread them under who rise up against us.

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    14For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

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    9For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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    16They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

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    4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

  • Ps 22:16
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    30And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?

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    84How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?

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    10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    45You have made us like refuse and scorn among the people.

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    12And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it.

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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

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    4Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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    11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, preserve those appointed to die;

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    13So we, Your people and the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; we will show forth Your praise to all generations.