Psalm 51:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Rescue me from violent bloodshed, God, my saving God, and my tongue will sing joyfully of your justice.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the Lord and done what is evil in his sight? You have cut down Uriah the Hittite with the sword; his wife you took as your own, and him you killed with the sword of the Ammonites.

Psalm 40:6

You, yes you, O Lord, my God, have done many wondrous deeds! And in your plans for us there is none to equal you. Should I wish to declare or tell them, too many are they to recount.

Psalm 50:8

Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you, your burnt offerings are always before me.

Psalm 51:6

Against you, you alone have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your eyes So that you are just in your word, and without reproach in your judgment.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth shall proclaim your just deeds, day after day your acts of deliverance, though I cannot number them all.

Exodus 21:14

But when someone kills a neighbor after maliciously scheming to do so, you must take him even from my altar and put him to death.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, the more so when they offer it with bad intent.

Jeremiah 7:27

When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you either. When you call to them, they will not answer you.

Hosea 6:6

For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Numbers 15:27

If it is an individual who sins inadvertently, this person shall bring a yearling she-goat as a purification offering.

Numbers 35:31

You will not accept compensation in place of the life of a murderer who deserves to die, but that person must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is discovered lying with a woman who is married to another, they both shall die, the man who was lying with the woman as well as the woman. Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel said: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to the Lord’s command? Obedience is better than sacrifice, to listen, better than the fat of rams.