Psalms 44:22 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 44:22

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

YLT

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

DBT

But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Psalms 44:11
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

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is applied by the apostle, Rom. viii. 36 ), and indeed in all its days on earth, for it is its determined lot that it must enter into the kingdom of heaven through many tribulations. And, if we have any gospel-psalms pointing at the privileges and comforts of Christians, why should we not have one pointing at their trials and exercises?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Some observe that most of the psalms that are entitled Maschil--psalms of instruction, are sorrowful psalms; for afflictions give instructions, and sorrow of spirit opens the ear to them. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest and teachest.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): "It is for thy sake that we are killed all the day long, because we stand related to thee, are called by thy name, call upon thy name, and will not worship other gods." In this the Spirit of prophecy had reference to those who suffered even unto death for the testimony of Christ, to whom it is applied, Rom. viii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Quoted in ROM 8:36
'For thy sake we are killed all the day long' ('as it is written')

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