What is the context of Psalm 44?

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As part of my daily Bible reading, I was going through Psalm 44, which contains a very familiar verse from Paul’s writings:

22 Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

As somebody who’s only recently started reading through the Bible in a deliberate fashion, this jumped out at me, and immediately raised the question: What is the context of this psalm? Who were they being slaughtered by? Into whose hand were they being given (even though they had been faithful to the covenant)? At what point in Israel’s history does this narrative arise?

Any insight would be appreciated.