Psalm 44:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² Because of you we are being killed all day long and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² No, but for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. [Rom. 8:35-39.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Common English Bible

²² No, God, it’s because of you that we are getting killed every day— it’s because of you that we are considered sheep ready for slaughter.

Psalm 44:22 Cross References

Romans 8:36

As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Psalm 44:11

You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.

John 15:21

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.

1 Kings 19:10

He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”

Revelation 17:6

And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.

Genesis 18:15

But Sarah denied, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “Yes, you did laugh.”

Joshua 22:22

“The Lord, God of gods! The Lord, God of gods! He knows, and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith toward the Lord, do not spare us today

Psalm 94:11

The Lord knows our thoughts, that they are but an empty breath.

Psalm 139:2

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.