'Blood' in the Bible

Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

Multiplied are their griefs, Who have hastened backward; I pour not out their libations of blood, Nor do I take up their names on my lips.

Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life,

What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?

Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

Deliver me from workers of iniquity, And from men of blood save me.

So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, In the blood of enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'

From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.

And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

Why do the nations say, 'Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.

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.

Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!