Parallel Verses

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 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.

A Conservative Version

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

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 rebels your merciful ways, and sinners will turn to you. 14 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. 15 O Lord, give me the words! Then my mouth will praise you.


Cross References

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.

Psalm 35:28

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

Psalm 26:9

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

Genesis 9:6

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

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!"

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!

2 Samuel 11:15-17

In the letter he wrote: "Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed."

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."

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 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 71:15-24

I will tell about your justice, and all day long proclaim your salvation, though I cannot fathom its full extent.

Psalm 86:12-13

O Lord, my God, I will give you thanks with my whole heart! I will honor your name continually!

Psalm 88:1

A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. 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 9:7

"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.

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.

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.

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