As when one plows and breaks open the earth, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Romans 8:36 - Tree of Life Version As it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. [Ps. 44:22.] American Standard Version (1901) Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Common English Bible As it is written, “We are being put to death all day long for your sake. ” “We are treated like sheep for slaughter.” Catholic Public Domain Version For it is as it has been written: "For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version (As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) |
As when one plows and breaks open the earth, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
You make us retreat before the enemy. Those who hate us have plundered us.
would God not have discovered it? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter, like a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
But I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter. I did not know they had devised plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be no more remembered.”
But You have known me, Adonai. You see me, and examine my heart toward You. Drag them off like sheep for slaughter. Set them apart for the day of carnage.
“I will drag them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
However, I don’t consider my life of any value, except that I might finish my course and the office I received from the Lord Yeshua, to declare the Good News of the grace of God.
Now the passage of Scripture that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He opens not His Mouth.
I die every day—yes, as surely as the boast in you, brothers and sisters, which I have in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
For it seems to me that God has put us, the emissaries, on display last of all—like men sentenced to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
In fact, we had within ourselves the death sentence—so that we might not rely on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.
Are they servants of Messiah? I am more so—I speak like I’m out of my mind—in labors much more, in prisons much more, in beatings more brutal, near death often.
as unknown and yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined yet not put to death;
My aim is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the sharing of His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death—