Psalm 51:14

New English Translation

Rescue me from the guilt of murder, O God, the God who delivers me! Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your deliverance.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 3:28

When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

Ezra 9:13

“Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

Nehemiah 9:33

You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!

Psalm 25:5

Guide me into your truth and teach me. For you are the God who delivers me; on you I rely all day long.

Psalm 26:9

Do not sweep me away with sinners, or execute me along with violent people,

Psalm 35:28

Then I will tell others about your justice, and praise you all day long.

Psalm 38:22

Hurry and help me, O Lord, my deliverer!

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.

Psalm 68:20

Our God is a God who delivers; the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.

Psalm 88:1

O Lord God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.

Isaiah 12:2

Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.”

Isaiah 45:17

Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.

Ezekiel 33:8

When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you must certainly die,’ and you do not warn the wicked about his behavior, the wicked man will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death.

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.

Daniel 9:7

“You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day – the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

Hosea 4:2

There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

Habakkuk 3:18

I will rejoice because of the Lord; I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!

Acts 18:6

When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”

Acts 20:26

Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

Romans 10:3

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.