Psalms 44:22
But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Open English Bible (US)
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
21would God not have searched this out? For he knows the heart and its secrets.
23Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.
Cross References
Joshua 22:22“The Mighty One, God, the Lord, the Mighty One, God, the Lord, knows well, and Israel will know, if we were rebels or broke faith (if we did, do not spare us!)
Psalms 79:2They have given the bodies of your dead servants to the birds of the air to devour, and the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the field.
Psalms 139:2when I sit, when I rise you know it, you perceive my thoughts from afar.
John 15:21But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my name, for they do not know 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 →