New King James Version
Psalms 44:22
22Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 44:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- New International Version (NIV)Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.
Context of Psalms 44:22
20If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, 21Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 23Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. 24Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
Read all of Psalms 44Psalms 44:22 word by word
כִּֽי־עָ֭לֶיךָ הֹרַ֣גְנוּ כָל־הַיּ֑וֹם נֶ֝חְשַׁ֗בְנוּ כְּצֹ֣אן טִבְחָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 44:22
- Romans 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
- Psalms 40:11Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord; Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.
- Psalms 79:2The dead bodies of Your servants They have given as food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
- 1 Samuel 22:17Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the Lord.
- 1 Kings 19:10So he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.”
- Matthew 5:10Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- John 15:21But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
- John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
- 1 Corinthians 15:30And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?
- Revelation 11:3And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- Revelation 17:6I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
Commentaries on Psalms 44:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22For thy sake are we killed all the day long - Because of our attachment to thee and to thy religion, we are exposed to continual death; and some of us fail a daily sacrifice to the persecuting spirit of our enemies, and we all carry our lives continually in our hands. In the same state were the primitive Christians; and St. Paul applies these words to their case, Romans 8:36.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long - That is, we are continually or constantly subjected to these calamities. It is not a single defeat, but it is a continued slaughter. This verse contains, in the apprehension of the psalmist, the true cause of the calamities which had come upon the nation. The emphasis in the passage lies in the phrase “for thy sake.” The meaning is, It is on thy account; it is in thy cause; it is because we are thy…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-26Verses 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 comfort in God. Let us take…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22Paul quotes this verse as a parenthetical aside in his list of things that cannot separate us from Christ’s love (Romans 8:36).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. Their protracted sufferings as God's people attests the constancy. Paul (Ro 8:36) uses this to describe Christian steadfastness in persecution.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 44
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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