Psalm 44:22

Israel's Complaint

²¹ Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart. ²² Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter. ²³ Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

All Day Long

Put to Death

Sheep for the Slaughter

Sheep To Be Slaughtered

Romans 8:36

(according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

1 Samuel 22:17-19

And the king saith to runners, those standing by him, 'Turn round, and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they have known that he is fleeing, and have not uncovered mine ear;' and the servants of the king have not been willing to put forth their hand to come against the priests of Jehovah.

1 Kings 19:10

And he saith, 'I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant -- Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life -- to take it.'

Psalm 44:11

Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

Psalm 79:2-3

They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth.

Isaiah 53:7

It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.

Matthew 5:10-12

Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

John 15:21

but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

John 16:2-3

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

1 Corinthians 4:9

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

1 Corinthians 15:30-31

why also do we stand in peril every hour?

Revelation 11:3-9

and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;