Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 44:22 in other translations
| BSB | Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. |
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| WEB | Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter. |
| ASV | Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| YLT | Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter. |
| DARBY | But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter. |
| BBE | Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction. |
| Webster | Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
What does Psalms 44:22 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 44:17-26
In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful compliance; but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and knowledge of our heart-searching God. Hearts sins and secret sins are known to God, and must be reckoned for. He knows the secret of the heart, therefore judges of the words and actions. While our troubles do not drive us from our duty to God, we should not suffer them to drive us from our…
Psalms 44:22 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 44:22
- Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
- Psalms 44:11
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
- John 16:2-3
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
- John 15:21
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
- Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
- 1 Corinthians 15:30-31
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
- 1 Samuel 22:17-19
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord. And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- 1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
- Psalms 79:2-3
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
- Revelation 11:3-9
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. …
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Context
- Psalms 44:21
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Psalms 44:23
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Psalms 44:22 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Empero por tu causa nos matan cada día; somos tenidos como ovejas para el matadero. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Dieu ne s’en enquerrait-il pas? car lui connaît les secrets du cœur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Doch um deinetwillen werden wir getötet den ganzen Tag, wie Schlachtschafe sind wir geachtet. |