King James Version
Psalms 44:22 in the King James Version says “Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 44 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Psalms 44:22 · KJV
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“long we are counted”
H2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou
“as sheep”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
“for the slaughter”
H2878properly, something slaughtered; hence, a beast (or meat, as butchered); abstractly butchery (or concretely, a place of slaughter)
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