Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
The psalmist rehearses God's faithfulness to the fathers, then lodges a sharp complaint: He no longer goes forth with us as He once did. The structure is plain: mercies remembered, present affliction lamented, covenant loyalty maintained despite suffering, and a final prayer that God not forget the dishonor done to His worship.
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Commenting on Psalm 44:1-26
They were killed all day long not for sin but for loyalty to God, hounded to death with no escape because they would not abandon their covenant King. We are sheep marked only for slaughter, as easily and innocently put to the knife as cattle in the pen. From Piedmont to Smithfield, from St. Bartholomew's to the dragoonades, the martyr's cry ascends; her vindication shall come.
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We have not forgotten You or cast off worship of You, though we suffer what seems unbearable. We have not harbored hard thoughts against You or turned our hearts from Your way, even when covered with the shadow of death and broken among fierce men. Though You have slain us, we continue to trust.
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Commenting on Psalm 44:17-26