Charles Ellicott Commentary Romans 8:36

"Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." — Romans 8:36 (ASV)

For thy sake we are killed.—The quotation is taken from Psalms 44:22, which was apparently written at some period of great national distress; at what precise period the data do not enable us to say, but probably not earlier than Josiah. The sufferings of God’s people at all times are typical of each other. There is the further reason for the application in the text that the Psalm does not lay stress upon the guilt of the people, but regards their sufferings as undergone in the cause of the theocracy. At the same time, the tone of the Psalmist lacks the exulting and triumphant confidence of the Apostle.