Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
⛓ Read Psalm 44 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
v.36 cites verbatim with the formula 'even as it is written': 'For your sake we are killed all day long; we were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' The lament psalm of the righteous suffering for God's sake interprets the believers' affliction (v.35).
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'For your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter' underlies Paul's depiction of the apostles displayed 'like men sentenced to death,' a spectacle suffering for the gospel. Paul cites this very psalm in Romans 8:36, evidencing recurrence and a settled reading of the righteous-as-condemned motif.
Medium confidence'Always delivered to death for Jesus' sake' anticipates the very verse ('we are killed all day long') Paul quotes at Rom 8:36, casting apostolic suffering as the lot of the faithful slain for God. Recurrence in Paul lends the echo weight.
Medium confidence