Psalm 94:21

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

²⁰ Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law? ²¹ They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. ²² But the LORD is my refuge, my God is the strength of my confidence.

Innocent Blood

Righteous Man

Righteous One

No

Proverbs 17:15

The LORD hateth as well him that justifieth the ungodly, as him that condemneth the innocent.

Exodus 23:7

"Keep thee far from a false matter, and the Innocent and righteous see thou slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.

Psalm 59:3

For lo, they lie in waiting for my soul; the mighty men are gathered together against me, without any offense or fault of me, O LORD.

Matthew 27:1

when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death,

1 Kings 21:19

And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'"

Psalm 2:1-3

W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

Psalm 22:16

For many dogs are come about me, the counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me.

Psalm 56:6

They hold all together, and keep themselves close, and mark my steps, when they lay wait for my soul.

Psalm 106:38

and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.

Proverbs 1:11

if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood.

Jeremiah 26:15

But this shall ye know: if ye put me to death, ye shall make yourselves, this city and all the inhabiters thereof, guilty of innocent blood. For this is of a truth: that the LORD hath sent me unto you, to speak all these words in your ears."

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the rulers of Israel have brought every man his power, to shed blood in thee.

Ezekiel 22:12

Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God.

Ezekiel 22:27

Thy rulers in thee are like ravishing wolves, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, for their own covetous lucre.

Matthew 23:32-36

Fulfill ye likewise the measure of your fathers:

Matthew 27:4

saying, "I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that."

Acts 4:5-7

And it chanced on the morrow that their rulers, and elders, and scribes:

Acts 4:27-28

For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and also Pontius Pilate with the gentiles, and the people of Israel, gathered themselves together:

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.

Acts 7:58-60

and cast him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, named Saul.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the wife drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great marvel.