Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.
New American Standard Bible
We are considered as
King James Version
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Holman Bible
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
A Conservative Version
Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
American Standard Version
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Amplified
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
Darby Translation
But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
Julia Smith Translation
For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
King James 2000
Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long}; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Modern King James verseion
Yea, for Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
NET Bible
Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
New Heart English Bible
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Webster
Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
World English Bible
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Youngs Literal Translation
Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 44:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Complaint
21 wouldn't God find out since he knows the secrets of the heart? 22 For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered. 23 Wake up! Why are you asleep, Lord? Get up! Don't cast us off forever!
Cross References
Romans 8:36
As it is written, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long. We are thought of as sheep headed for slaughter."
1 Samuel 22:17-19
The king told the guards, who were standing beside him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD because they supported David, and because they knew he was fleeing, but didn't inform me." But the officials of the king did not want to lift their hands to attack the priests of the LORD.
1 Kings 19:10
"I've been very zealous for the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies," he replied. "The Israelis have abandoned your covenant, demolished your altars, executed your prophets with swords, and I that's right, just me! am the only one left. Now they're seeking my life, to get rid of me!"
Psalm 44:11
You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 79:2-3
to give the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the skies and the flesh of your godly ones to the beasts of the earth;
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he didn't open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Matthew 5:10-12
"How blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to them!
John 15:21
They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
John 16:2-3
You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
And why in fact are we being endangered every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
I will give my two witnesses who wear sackcloth the authority to prophesy for 1,260 days."
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.