Psalm 51:14
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14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my salvation,
And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
2 Samuel 12:9
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9 (A)Why have you (B)despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? (C)You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.
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Psalm 35:28
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28 And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness
And of Your praise all the day long.
Hosea 4:2
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2 By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed [a]upon bloodshed.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:2 Lit. touching
Psalm 26:9
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- Psalm 26:9 Do not take away
Romans 10:3
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3 For they being ignorant of (A)God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own (B)righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
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Acts 20:26
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26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am (A)innocent[a] of the blood of all men.
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- Acts 20:26 Lit. clean
Habakkuk 3:18
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18 Yet I will (A)rejoice in the Lord,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Daniel 9:16
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16 “O Lord, (A)according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, (B)Your holy mountain; because for our sins, (C)and for the iniquities of our fathers, (D)Jerusalem and Your people (E)are a reproach to all those around us.
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Daniel 9:7
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7 O Lord, (A)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
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Ezekiel 33:8
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8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
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Isaiah 45:17
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17 (A)But Israel shall be saved by the Lord
With an (B)everlasting salvation;
You shall not be ashamed or (C)disgraced
Forever and ever.
Isaiah 12:2
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2 Behold, God is my salvation,
I will trust and not be afraid;
(A)‘For (B)Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song;
He also has become my salvation.’ ”
Psalm 88:1
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A Prayer for Help in Despondency
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath Leannoth.” A [a]Contemplation of (A)Heman the Ezrahite.
88 O Lord, (B)God of my salvation,
I have cried out day and night before You.
Footnotes
- Psalm 88:1 Heb. Maschil
Psalm 86:12-13
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12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
And I will glorify Your name forevermore.
13 For great is Your mercy toward me,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of [a]Sheol.
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- Psalm 86:13 The abode of the dead
Psalm 71:15-24
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15 My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And Your salvation all the day,
For I do not know their limits.
16 I will go in the strength of the Lord God;
I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.
17 O God, You have taught me from my (A)youth;
And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.
18 Now also (B)when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.
19 Also (C)Your righteousness, O God, is [a]very high,
You who have done great things;
(D)O God, who is like You?
20 (E)You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,
(F)Shall revive me again,
And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
21 You shall increase my greatness,
And comfort me on every side.
22 Also (G)with the lute I will praise You—
And Your faithfulness, O my God!
To You I will sing with the harp,
O (H)Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You,
And (I)my soul, which You have redeemed.
24 My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long;
For they are confounded,
For they are brought to shame
Who seek my hurt.
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- Psalm 71:19 great, lit. to the height of heaven
Psalm 68:20
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20 Our God is the God of salvation;
And (A)to God the Lord belong escapes from death.
Psalm 55:23
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23 But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
(A)Bloodthirsty and deceitful men (B)shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in You.
Psalm 38:22
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22 Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!
Psalm 25:5
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5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
On You I wait all the day.
Nehemiah 9:33
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33 However (A)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (B)we have done wickedly.
Ezra 9:13
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13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God (A)have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this,
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2 Samuel 21:1
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David Avenges the Gibeonites
21 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David (A)inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, “It is because of Saul and his [a]bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
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- 2 Samuel 21:1 Lit. house of bloodshed
2 Samuel 11:15-17
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15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the [a]hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may (A)be struck down and die.” 16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
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- 2 Samuel 11:15 fiercest
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