Within a context of this sort, the protest of the psalmist is that these events have come on the nation not because of their own sin but “because of you” (v. Why then does Paul choose this moment, right in the middle of the section’s climactic final paragraph, to break the flow of his rhetoric with a citation from the psalms?

But ‘all the day long’ refers to a certain day or ‘the day’, so it could mean 24 hours of that day or from morning till night on that day.Struggles in this life are not a sign that God has abandoned us; they are hardships He works to see us through (Hebrews 12:3–11).

Modified or adapted versions of prayers and original prayers on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. Ross Wagner, Heralds of the Good News: Paul and Isaiah ‘in Concert’, NovtSup 101 (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 36–39. Paul reads the Psalm as a prophetic prefiguration of the experience of the Christian church, so that the text finds its true primary meaning in Paul’s own present time.It is difficult, too, to see how on this reading the ἀλλά (NRSV: “No…”) that commences verse 37 can retain its function as a strong disjunction within the rhetoric of the paragraph, if verse 36 is already serving as a radical reinterpretation of the sufferings referred to in the previous verse, and is intended by Paul to be heard as, in part at least, “an announcement of victory” and “a hopeful reminder of Jesus’ resurrection and the believer’s eventual participation at the parousia. As it happens, Seifrid does take the latter as a reminiscence of “Christ, the Suffering Servant, who likewise was led as a ‘sheep to slaughter’” (“Romans,” 636), but the identification of this intertextual echo does not require the conclusion that the total meaning of Christ’s sufferings is transferred to all of the sufferings of believers that the verse is referring to. As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered. But if you want a book that will engage, stay with you, and be loved, and if you love real characters and real life, and relationships, read this book.

Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE COUNTED AS SHEEP FOR the SLAUGHTER. We may speak or sing a hymn, which is somewhat shorter than a psalm, or we may speak or sing a spiritual song, which is shorter still.See also the similar conclusions drawn in Tyler Stewart, “The Cry of Victory: A Cruciform Reading of Psalm 44:22 in Romans 8:36,” JSPL 3 (2013): 44–45, Jewett, Romans: A Commentary, 548, Michael J. But as for Israel he says: "All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people. Thus, for example, Charles Cranfield suggests that the quotation’s main effect is “to show that the tribulations which face Christians are nothing new or unexpected, but have long been characteristic of the life of God’s people. for themselves (with a confident “no”), the shape of the paragraph as a whole suggests that the rhetorical question in v. Having commenced this section of the letter with a bold assertion about the certain hope of those who have been justified by faith, enabling them to boast even in the midst of their present sufferings (5:1–11), Paul now concludes it by reasserting their status as those whom God has justified (8:33; cf.