Psalm 94:21

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute? ²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of a righteous man, and condemn innocent blood. ²² But LORD has been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.

Innocent Blood

Righteous Man

Righteous One

No

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies a wicked man, and he who condemns a righteous man, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.

Exodus 23:7

Keep thee far from a FALSE matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, for I will not justify a wicked man.

Psalm 59:3

For, lo, they lay in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Matthew 27:1

But having become morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held consultation against Jesus in order to condemn him to death.

1 Kings 21:19

And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, eve

Psalm 2:1-3

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain {things (LXX/NT)}?

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have encompassed me. A company of evil-doers have enclosed me. {They pierced (LXX/DSS)} my hands and my feet.

Psalm 56:6

They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.

Psalm 106:38

and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was polluted with blood.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Jeremiah 26:15

Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants of it. For of a truth LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Matthew 23:32-36

Then fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 27:4

saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.

Acts 4:5-7

And it came to pass on the morrow, to be assembled in Jerusalem, their rulers, and elders, and scholars,

Acts 4:27-28

For in truth, against thy holy Boy Jesus, whom thou anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

Acts 7:58-60

And having expelled him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments beside the feet of a young man called Saul.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.