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

As it is written, "For thy sake are we killed all day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain."

Killed

Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air, and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land.

Then said the king unto his footmen that stood about him, "Turn and slay the priests of the LORD, both because their hand is with David and because they knew when David fled and showed it not to me." But the servants of the king would not move their hands, to run upon the priests of the LORD.

And he answered, "I have been thorough angry for the LORD God of Hosts' sake. For the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and have broken down thine altars and slain the Prophets with the sword, and I only am left, and they seek my soul to have it too."

Blessed are they which suffer persecution 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 have not known him that sent me.

They shall excommunicate you: yea the time shall come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God true service.

Me thinketh that God hath set forth us, which are apostles, for the lowest of all: as it were, men appointed to death. For we are a gazingstock unto the world, and to the angels, and to men.

Yea, and why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

And I saw the wife drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great marvel.

General references

I shall carry them down to be slain like sheep, like whethers and goats.