Psalm 44:22

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

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

Blessed are the persecuted for righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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

They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming when every one that kills you will think he renders God a service.

For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Why also do we encounter danger every hour?

And I will give charge to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days [three years and a half] clothed with sackcloth.

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