Psalms 44:11
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
KJV
Audi, filia, et vide, et inclina aurem tuam ; et obliviscere populum tuum, et domum patris tui.
Vulgate
ἄκουσον, θύγατερ, καὶ ἴδε καὶ κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου, καὶ ἐπιλάθου τοῦ λαοῦ σου καὶ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου·
LXX
Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.
ASV
תְּשִׁיבֵ֣/נוּ אָ֭חוֹר מִנִּי צָ֑ר וּ֝/מְשַׂנְאֵ֗י/נוּ שָׁ֣סוּ לָֽ/מוֹ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אָח֑וֹר
'chvr
noun · 41×
הוּ
hv
verb · 11×
ו
v
verb · 107×
י
y
verb · 148×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews · 2 passages
1. Paul mixes the lowly things with the lofty, ever imitating his Master, so that the lowly become the path to the lofty, and through the former we are led to the latter, and when we are amid the great things we learn that these [lowly ones] were a condescension. This accordingly he does here also. After declaring that He offered up Himself, and showing Him to be a High Priest,…
1. At all times indeed, but especially then when I reflect upon the achievements of the saints, it comes over me to feel despondency concerning my own condition, because we have not even in dreams experienced the things among which those men spent their whole lives, not paying the penalty of sins, but always doing rightly and yet always afflicted. For consider, I beseech you, E…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:1 — Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
- Acts 8:32 — The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
- Deut 4:27 — And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
- Deut 28:64 — And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and
- Ezek 5:10 — Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the win
- Ezek 11:16 — Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the
- Ezek 34:12 — As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the
- Isa 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
- Jer 32:37 — Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwe
- Lev 26:33 — And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- Ps 44:22 — Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Ps 49:14 — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
- Ps 106:27 — To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
- Rom 8:36 — As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.