When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets 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 upon 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 you? shall it declare your 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 your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

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

Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.

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

That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your 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 souls from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.

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

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.

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

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

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.

Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your 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.

Let it be unto him as the garment which covers him, and for a belt with which he is girded continually.

Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to your word.

Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:

[A song of ascents. Of Solomon.] Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes, but in vain.

The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.