When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

{A Psalm of David.} Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

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

Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.