Psalm 94:21

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

²⁰ Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute? ²¹ They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked. ²² And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God is for a rock -- my refuge,

Innocent Blood

Righteous Man

Righteous One

No

Proverbs 17:15

Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

Exodus 23:7

from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

Psalm 59:3

For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

Matthew 27:1

And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;

1 Kings 21:19

and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.'

Psalm 2:1-3

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Psalm 22:16

And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.

Psalm 56:6

They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

Psalm 106:38

And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

Jeremiah 26:15

Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.'

Ezekiel 22:6

Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:12

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

Ezekiel 22:27

Its princes in its midst are as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

Matthew 23:32-36

and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 27:4

I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, 'What -- to us? thou shalt see!'

Acts 4:5-7

And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,

Acts 4:27-28

for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

Acts 7:52

which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

Acts 7:58-60

and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning him -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul --

James 5:6

ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;