Psalms 119:109

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

Elijah said to him, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” Then they both went on.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.

Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.