Because of you we are being killed all day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalm 141:7 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, As when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The unburied bones [of slaughtered rulers] shall lie scattered at the mouth of Sheol, [as unregarded] as the lumps of soil behind the plowman when he breaks open the ground. [II Cor. 1:9.] American Standard Version (1901) As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. Common English Bible Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed. Catholic Public Domain Version Attend to my supplication. For I have been humbled exceedingly. Free me from my persecutors, for they have been fortified against me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. |
Because of you we are being killed all day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
There they shall be in great terror, in terror such as has not been. For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented—