Psalms 44:22
Shall not God search out these things : for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long : we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
21If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god :
23Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
Cross References
Joshua 22:22The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately:
1 Kings 19:10And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.
Psalms 79:2They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 139:2I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.
Jeremiah 17:10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
John 15:21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not 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 →