Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
In Context
21will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
23Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.
Cross References
Joshua 22:22The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),
1 Kings 19:10And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons 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 lif
Psalms 79:2They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy sanctified to the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 139:2Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off.
Jeremiah 17:10I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
John 15:21But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they have not known him who sent me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:18-26
Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the… Read the whole commentary →