'Blood' in the Bible

For He who avenges blood [unjustly shed] remembers them (His people);He does not forget the cry of the afflicted and abused.

The sorrows [pain and suffering] of those who have chosen another god will be multiplied [because of their idolatry];I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,Nor will I take their names upon my lips.

“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)?Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?

“Shall I eat the flesh of bullsOr drink the blood of male goats?

But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

The [unyieldingly] righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance [of God];He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

That your foot may crush them in blood,That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”

He will redeem their life from oppression and fraud and violence,And their blood will be precious in His sight.

And turned their rivers into blood,And their streams, so that they could not drink.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem,And there was no one to bury them.

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

He turned Egypt’s waters into bloodAnd caused their fish to die.

And shed innocent blood,Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;And the land was polluted with their blood.

O that You would kill the wicked, O God;Go away from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.