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

According as it is written - For thy sake, are we being put to death all the day long, we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter. -

Killed

Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

And the king said unto the runners that were stationed by him - Turn ye round and put to death the priests of Yahweh, because, their hand also, is with David, and because they knew that he was, in flight, and unveiled not mine ear. But the servants of the king were not willing to thrust forth their hand, to fall upon the priests of Yahweh.

And he said - Very jealous, have I been, for Yahweh, God of hosts, because the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thine altars, have they thrown down, thy prophets, also have they slain with the sword, - and, I alone, am left, and they have sought my life, to take it.

Happy, they who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake; for, theirs, is the kingdom of the heavens.

But, all these things, will they do unto you, on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.

Excommunicants from the synagogue, will they make you; Nay! there cometh an hour, that, every one who killeth you, shall think to be rendering, divine service, unto God!

For I think that, God, hath set forth, us the apostles, to be last of all, as men devoted to death, - in that, a spectacle, have we been made, unto the world, - both unto messengers and unto men.

Why also are, we, running into peril every hour?

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

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I was astonished, when I beheld her, with great astonishment.

General references

I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter, - As rams with he-goats.