Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

New American Standard Bible

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Because of You we are slain all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

International Standard Version

For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


But for Your sake we are killed all the day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

Darby Translation

But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long}; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.

Modern King James verseion

Yea, for Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.

NET Bible

Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

New Heart English Bible

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

The Emphasized Bible

Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

Youngs Literal Translation

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

21 Will not God search this out? for he knew the secrets of the heart 22 For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter. 23 Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever.

Cross References

Romans 8:36

As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

1 Samuel 22:17-19

And the king will say to the runners standing by him, Turn about and kill the priests of Jehovah, for their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not uncover his ear. And the king's servants would not stretch forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.

1 Kings 19:10

And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it

Psalm 44:11

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

Psalm 79:2-3

They gave the corpses of thy servants food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

Isaiah 53:7

He was pressed, and he was afflicted, and he will not open his mouth: he was brought as a sheep for the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers being dumb and he will not open his mouth.

Matthew 5:10-12

Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.

John 15:21

But all these will they do to you for my name, for they know not him having sent me.

John 16:2-3

They shall make you excluded from the synagogue: but the hour comes that every one having slain you should think to bring service to God.

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men.

1 Corinthians 15:30-31

And why are we in peril every hour?

Revelation 11:3-9

And I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, surrounded with sackcloth.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.

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