Psalm 94:21

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

²⁰ Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute? ²¹ They band together against [the] life of [the] righteous, and declare [the] blameless guilty of blood. ²² But Yahweh has become my [high] stronghold, and my God [has become] my rock of refuge.

Innocent Blood

Righteous Man

Righteous One

No

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, the two of them [are] both abominations of Yahweh.

Exodus 23:7

You will stay far from a {false charge}, and do not kill [the] innocent and [the] righteous, because I will not declare [the] wicked righteous.

Psalm 59:3

For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.

Matthew 27:1

Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.

1 Kings 21:19

You shall say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Have you committed murder and also taken possession?" ' You shall also say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood." '"

Psalm 2:1-3

Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?

Psalm 22:16

Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.

Psalm 56:6

They attack, they hide, they watch my {steps}, as they [lie in] wait for my life.

Psalm 106:38

and they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and [so] the land was defiled with the blood.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood,

Jeremiah 26:15

Only you must certainly know that if you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves innocent blood, and on this city and on its inhabitants, for {truly} Yahweh sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

Ezekiel 22:6

Look! The princes of Israel, each [one] according to his strength, they are in you {for the shedding of blood}.

Ezekiel 22:12

They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 22:27

Its officials [are] like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain.

Matthew 23:32-36

And you--fill up the measure of your fathers!

Matthew 27:4

saying, "I have sinned [by] betraying innocent blood!" But they said, "What [is that] to us? You see to [it]!"

Acts 4:5-7

And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem,

Acts 4:27-28

For in truth both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,

Acts 7:58-60

And [after they] had driven [him] out of the city, they began to stone [him], and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous [person]; he does not resist you.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. And {I was greatly astonished when I saw her}.