Psalms 44:22
Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
21Shall not God searche this out? for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart.
23Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord? awake, be not farre off for euer.
Cross References
Joshua 22:22The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel himselfe shall know: if by rebellion, or by transgression against ye Lord we haue done it, saue thou vs not this day.
1 Kings 19:10And he answered, I haue bene very ielous for the Lord God of hostes: for the children of Israel haue forsaken thy couenant, broken downe thine altars, and slayne thy Prophets with the sword, and I onely am left, and they seeke my life to take it away.
Psalms 79:2The dead bodies of thy seruats haue they giuen to be meat vnto foules of ye heauen: and the flesh of thy Saintes vnto the beastes of the earth.
Psalms 139:2Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.
Jeremiah 17:10I the Lord search the heart, and try ye reines, euen to giue euery man according to his wayes, and according to the fruite of his workes.
John 15:21But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they haue not knowen 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 →