Psalm 44:22

Israel's Complaint

²¹ Would not God find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²² But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
²³ Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.

All Day Long

Put to Death

Sheep for the Slaughter

Sheep To Be Slaughtered

Romans 8:36

Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

1 Samuel 22:17-19

And the king said to the guards who were attending him, “Turn around and put the priests of the Lord to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me.” But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the Lord.

1 Kings 19:10

He said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

Psalm 44:11

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 79:2-3

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants for food to the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.

Matthew 5:10-12

“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

John 15:21

But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

John 16:2-3

They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

1 Corinthians 4:9

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

1 Corinthians 15:30-31

Why are we also in danger every hour?

Revelation 11:3-9

And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.