Psalm 51:14
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14 Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves;
then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.
2 Samuel 12:9
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9 Why, then, have you despised the word of the Lord and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife.
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Psalm 35:28
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28 Then I will proclaim your justice,
and I will praise you all day long.
Romans 10:3
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3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
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Hosea 4:2
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2 You make vows and break them;
you kill and steal and commit adultery.
There is violence everywhere—
one murder after another.
Psalm 26:9
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9 Don’t let me suffer the fate of sinners.
Don’t condemn me along with murderers.
Acts 20:26
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26 I declare today that I have been faithful. If anyone suffers eternal death, it’s not my fault,[a]
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- 20:26 Greek I am innocent of the blood of all.
Acts 18:6
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6 But when they opposed and insulted him, Paul shook the dust from his clothes and said, “Your blood is upon your own heads—I am innocent. From now on I will go preach to the Gentiles.”
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Habakkuk 3:18
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18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord!
I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Daniel 9:16
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16 In view of all your faithful mercies, Lord, please turn your furious anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. All the neighboring nations mock Jerusalem and your people because of our sins and the sins of our ancestors.
Daniel 9:7
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7 “Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
Ezekiel 33:8
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8 If I announce that some wicked people are sure to die and you fail to tell them to change their ways, then they will die in their sins, and I will hold you responsible for their deaths.
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Isaiah 45:17
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17 But the Lord will save the people of Israel
with eternal salvation.
Throughout everlasting ages,
they will never again be humiliated and disgraced.
Isaiah 12:2
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2 See, God has come to save me.
I will trust in him and not be afraid.
The Lord God is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.”
Psalm 88:1
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Psalm 88
For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. A song to be sung to the tune “The Suffering of Affliction.” A psalm[a] of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 O Lord, God of my salvation,
I cry out to you by day.
I come to you at night.
Footnotes
- 88:Title Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
Psalm 86:12-13
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12 With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God.
I will give glory to your name forever,
13 for your love for me is very great.
You have rescued me from the depths of death.[a]
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- 86:13 Hebrew of Sheol.
Psalm 71:15-24
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15 I will tell everyone about your righteousness.
All day long I will proclaim your saving power,
though I am not skilled with words.[a]
16 I will praise your mighty deeds, O Sovereign Lord.
I will tell everyone that you alone are just.
17 O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood,
and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.
18 Now that I am old and gray,
do not abandon me, O God.
Let me proclaim your power to this new generation,
your mighty miracles to all who come after me.
19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the highest heavens.
You have done such wonderful things.
Who can compare with you, O God?
20 You have allowed me to suffer much hardship,
but you will restore me to life again
and lift me up from the depths of the earth.
21 You will restore me to even greater honor
and comfort me once again.
22 Then I will praise you with music on the harp,
because you are faithful to your promises, O my God.
I will sing praises to you with a lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
23 I will shout for joy and sing your praises,
for you have ransomed me.
24 I will tell about your righteous deeds
all day long,
for everyone who tried to hurt me
has been shamed and humiliated.
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- 71:15 Or though I cannot count it.
Psalm 68:20
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20 Our God is a God who saves!
The Sovereign Lord rescues us from death.
Psalm 55:23
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23 But you, O God, will send the wicked
down to the pit of destruction.
Murderers and liars will die young,
but I am trusting you to save me.
Psalm 38:22
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22 Come quickly to help me,
O Lord my savior.
Psalm 25:5
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5 Lead me by your truth and teach me,
for you are the God who saves me.
All day long I put my hope in you.
Nehemiah 9:33
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33 Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.
Ezra 9:13
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13 “Now we are being punished because of our wickedness and our great guilt. But we have actually been punished far less than we deserve, for you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive as a remnant.
2 Samuel 21:1
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David Avenges the Gibeonites
21 There was a famine during David’s reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the Lord about it. And the Lord said, “The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”
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2 Samuel 11:15-17
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15 The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.” 16 So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting. 17 And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.
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