14 Deliver me from (A)bloodguiltiness, O God,
    O (B)God of my salvation,
    and (C)my tongue will sing aloud of your (D)righteousness.

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(A)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, (B)to do what is evil in his sight? (C)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and (D)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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28 Then my (A)tongue shall tell of your righteousness
    and of your praise all the day long.

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For, being ignorant of (A)the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

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(A)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
    they break all bounds, and (B)bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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(A)Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
    nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

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26 Therefore (A)I testify to you this day that (B)I am innocent of the blood of all,

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And when they opposed and reviled him, (A)he shook out his garments and said to them, (B)“Your blood be on your own heads! (C)I am innocent. (D)From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

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18 (A)yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
    (B)I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

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16 “O Lord, (A)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, (B)your holy hill, (C)because for our sins, and for (D)the iniquities of our fathers, (E)Jerusalem and your people have become (F)a byword among all who are around us.

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To you, (A)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (B)those who are near and (C)those who are far away, in (D)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (E)the treachery that they have committed against you.

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(A)If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, (B)and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, (C)that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

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17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
    with everlasting salvation;
(A)you shall not be put to shame or confounded
    to all eternity.

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“Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for (A)the Lord God[a] is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord

I Cry Out Day and Night Before You

A Song. A Psalm of (A)the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to (B)Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil[a] of (C)Heman the Ezrahite.

88 O Lord, (D)God of my salvation,
    I (E)cry out day and night before you.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms

12 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
    and I will glorify your name forever.
13 (A)For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have (B)delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

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15 My (A)mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
    of your deeds of salvation all the day,
    for (B)their number is past my knowledge.
16 With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
    I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
    and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18 So even to (C)old age and gray hairs,
    O God, (D)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
    your power to all those to come.
19 Your (E)righteousness, O God,
    reaches the high heavens.
You who have done (F)great things,
    O God, (G)who is like you?
20 You who have (H)made me see many troubles and calamities
    will (I)revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
    you will bring me up again.
21 You will increase my greatness
    and comfort me again.

22 I will also praise you with (J)the harp
    for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
    O (K)Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will shout for joy,
    when I sing praises to you;
    my soul also, which you have (L)redeemed.
24 And my (M)tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been (N)put to shame and disappointed
    who sought to do me hurt.

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20 Our God is a God of salvation,
    (A)and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

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23 But you, O God, (A)will cast them down
    into (B)the pit of destruction;
men of (C)blood and treachery
    shall not (D)live out half their days.
But I will (E)trust in you.

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22 (A)Make haste to help me,
    O Lord, my (B)salvation!

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Lead me in your (A)truth and teach me,
    for you are the God of my salvation;
    for you I wait all the day long.

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33 (A)Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully (B)and we have acted wickedly.

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13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for (A)our great guilt, seeing that you, our (B)God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a (C)remnant as this,

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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)sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

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15 In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, (A)that he may be struck down, and die.” 16 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.

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