Psalms 44:22

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 8:36 : 36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
  • John 15:21 : 21 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
  • John 16:2-3 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
  • 1 Cor 15:30-31 : 30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? 31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
  • Rev 11:3-9 : 3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth. 5 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. 6 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. 7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. 8 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
  • 1 Sam 22:17-19 : 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. 18 The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
  • 1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."
  • Ps 44:11 : 11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
  • Ps 79:2-3 : 2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. 3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
  • Matt 5:10-12 : 10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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    35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

    36Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

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  • Ps 44:11-13
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    11You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

    12You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

    13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

  • Ps 44:23-25
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    23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

    24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

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    10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death works in us, but life in you.

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    3But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • Isa 53:6-7
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    6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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  • Ps 44:21
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    21won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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    8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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    19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Ps 44:7-8
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    7But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

    8In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

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    7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

  • Ps 95:7
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  • Lam 4:18-19
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    18They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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    4Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.

  • Heb 11:37
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    17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

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    5Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

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    5Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

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    14For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  • Ps 90:9
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    9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
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    16They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

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    4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

  • 1 Cor 15:30
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    30Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

  • Ps 119:84
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  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • Lam 3:45
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    45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

  • Isa 59:12
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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • Ps 23:4
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    4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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    11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

  • Ps 79:13
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    13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.