Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation. [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

New American Standard Bible

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

King James Version

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Holman Bible

Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God,
the God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

International Standard Version

Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness.

American Standard Version

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Amplified


Rescue me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will sing joyfully of Your righteousness and Your justice.

Bible in Basic English

Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

Darby Translation

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Julia Smith Translation

Deliver me from bloods, O God the God of my salvation; my tongue shall rejoice in thy justice.

King James 2000

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; [then] my tongue will sing aloud [of] your righteousness.

Modern King James verseion

Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health; that my tongue may praise thy righteousness.

NET Bible

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.

New Heart English Bible

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

The Emphasized Bible

Rescue me from shed-blood, O God, the God of my salvation, My tongue should shout thy righteousness;

Webster

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

World English Bible

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Youngs Literal Translation

Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness.

References

Easton

Hastings

Joy

Context Readings

Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God

13 Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted to thee. 14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation. [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O LORD, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.


Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

Psalm 35:28

And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness [and] of thy praise all the day long.

Psalm 26:9

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood,

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Sin not against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

2 Samuel 3:28

And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 11:15-17

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of LORD. And LORD said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

Ezra 9:13

And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Nehemiah 9:33

However thou are just in all that has come upon us, for thou have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,

Psalm 25:5

Guide me in thy truth, and teach me. For thou are the God of my salvation. For thee do I wait all the day.

Psalm 38:22

Make haste to help me, O LORD, my salvation.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

Psalm 68:20

God is to us a God of deliverances, and escape from death belongs to lord LORD.

Psalm 71:15-24

My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, of thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers.

Psalm 86:12-13

I will praise thee, O LORD my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

Psalm 88:1

O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.

Isaiah 12:2

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, [even] LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation.

Isaiah 45:17

[But] Israel shall be saved by LORD with an everlasting salvation. Ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded world without end.

Ezekiel 33:8

When I say to the wicked man, O wicked man, thou shall surely die, and thou do not speak to warn the wicked man from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

Daniel 9:7

O LORD, righteousness belongs to thee, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where tho

Daniel 9:16

O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy peopl

Hosea 4:2

There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

Habakkuk 3:18

Yet I will rejoice in LORD. I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Acts 18:6

But when they opposed and slandered him, having shaken out his clothes, he said to them, Your blood is upon your heads. I am clean. From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

Acts 20:26

Therefore I solemnly declare to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men.

Romans 10:3

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

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