Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted unto you. 14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 15 O Lord, open my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.


Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Psalm 35:28

And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

Psalm 26:9

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

Genesis 9:6

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

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and you would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

2 Samuel 3:28

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

2 Samuel 11:15-17

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

2 Samuel 21:1

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

Ezra 9:13

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that you our God has punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and has given us such deliverance as this;

Nehemiah 9:33

Yet you are just in all that is brought upon us; for you have done right, but we have done wickedly:

Psalm 25:5

Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

Psalm 38:22

Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

Psalm 55:23

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

Psalm 68:20

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the escape from death.

Psalm 71:15-24

My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the limits thereof.

Psalm 86:12-13

I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify your name forevermore.

Psalm 88:1

[A Song or Psalm for the Sons of Karah. To the Chief Musician upon mahanath leannoth. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

Isaiah 12:2

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation.

Isaiah 45:17

But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Ezekiel 33:8

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongs unto you, but unto us shame of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all that are about us.

Hosea 4:2

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.

Habakkuk 3:18

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

Acts 18:6

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his clothes, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Acts 20:26

Therefore I testify to you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

Romans 10:3

For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

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