Psalms 44:22
But for thy sake we are killed all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Noyes Bible
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
21Surely God would search it out; For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
23Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!
Cross References
Psalms 79:2They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of heaven, The flesh of thy holy ones to the wild beasts of the earth!
Psalms 139:2Thou knowest my sitting-down and my rising-up; Thou understandest my thoughts from afar!
Jeremiah 17:10I, Jehovah, search the heart, And try the reins, To give to every man according to his ways, And according to the fruit of his doings.
John 15:21But all these things will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not him that 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 →