For Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave.

They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

And why are we also in danger every hour?

For we who are living are always handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifest in our body.

And He, because of His affliction, opened not His mouth; He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

But I, as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, did not know. Against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.

But You, O Lord, know me; You have tested my heart before You; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

And bring them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.

Now the portion of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, thus He opened not His mouth.