Psalm 44:22

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Summary

Psalm 44:22

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

Yea

Romans 8:36

Killed

General references

Jeremiah 51:40

Bible References

Yea

Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Killed

Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.

And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness'sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.

For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

General references

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.