Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
New American Standard Bible
We are considered as
King James Version
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Holman Bible
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
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.
Julia Smith Translation
For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the 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.
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 44:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Complaint
21 should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart. 22 For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain. 23 Arise, LORD! Why sleepest thou? Awake, and be not absent from us forever.
Cross References
Romans 8:36
As it is written, "For thy sake are we killed all day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain."
1 Samuel 22:17-19
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.
1 Kings 19:10
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."
Psalm 44:11
Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.
Psalm 79:2-3
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.
Isaiah 53:7
He suffered wrong and was evil entreated, and yet opened not his mouth: he was as a sheep led to be slain: and as a lamb before his shearer, he was dumb and opened not his mouth.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 15:21
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they have not known him that sent me.
John 16:2-3
They shall excommunicate you: yea the time shall come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God true service.
1 Corinthians 4:9
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.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
Yea, and why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
Revelation 17:6
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.