Protected from the Bible – too much reality?

Ro 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

I received this from biblegateway.com  today as the "verse of the day".

At first I thought it was a good reminder.
Then I thought it's also important that we not be separated in the other direction.  You know - Jesus will always love us, but sometimes we lose our feeling of love for Him.
Then - I noticed there's a verse missing in the middle.

Question - what's that missing verse?

Well - here it is - and you can guess why it was left out -

Ro 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

This, of course, begs the question -
what is the entire passage?

More Than Conquerors

Ro 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Ro 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This is certainly presenting a different picture than the simple, benign verses we started with.

But there's one more question.
Whenever the Bible says something along the lines of "as it is written", that means the following words come from something in the Old Testament.  In this case, the "as it is written" applies to a verse in Psalm 44 -

Ps 44:22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

This national lament was no doubt composed during a time when Israel was suffering severe military defeats (cf. Ps. 60), and was originally used on a day of fasting called by the nation’s leader in order to appeal to God for help.  ¹NEW INTERNATIONAL BIBLE COMMENTARY Based on the NIV; General Editor (revised edition): F. F. Bruce, Originally edited by F. F. Bruce H. L. Ellison G. C. D. Howley; Formerly titled The International Bible Commentary; Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Interesting.
So what is the passage within which this verse fits?
It's fairly long, but please take the time to read it.  It's enlightening.

Ps 44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God;
our fathers have told us
what you did in their days,
in days long ago.
Ps 44:2 With your hand you drove out the nations
and planted our fathers;
you crushed the peoples
and made our fathers flourish.
Ps 44:3 It was not by their sword that they won the land,
nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
and the light of your face, for you loved them.