As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
As it is written (Psalms 44:22 ), for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. This is quoted as descriptive of what God's faithful people may expect from their enemies at any period when their hatred of righteousness is roused, and there is nothing to restrain it (see Galatians 4:29).