Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God,
the God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

New American Standard Bible

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

King James Version

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

International Standard Version

Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness.

A Conservative Version

Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation. [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

American Standard Version

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Amplified


Rescue me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will sing joyfully of Your righteousness and Your justice.

Bible in Basic English

Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

Darby Translation

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Julia Smith Translation

Deliver me from bloods, O God the God of my salvation; my tongue shall rejoice in thy justice.

King James 2000

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; [then] my tongue will sing aloud [of] your righteousness.

Modern King James verseion

Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health; that my tongue may praise thy righteousness.

NET Bible

Rescue me from the guilt of murder, O God, the God who delivers me! Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your deliverance.

New Heart English Bible

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

The Emphasized Bible

Rescue me from shed-blood, O God, the God of my salvation, My tongue should shout thy righteousness;

Webster

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

World English Bible

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Easton

Hastings

Joy

Context Readings

Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God

13 Then I will teach the rebellious Your ways,
and sinners will return to You.
14 Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God,
the God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
15 Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare Your praise.


Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why then have you despised the command of the Lord by doing what I consider evil? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.

Psalm 35:28

And my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness,
Your praise all day long.

Psalm 26:9

Do not destroy me along with sinners,
or my life along with men of bloodshed

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.

Genesis 42:22

But Reuben replied: “Didn’t I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood!”

2 Samuel 3:28

David heard about it later and said: “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

2 Samuel 11:15-17

In the letter he wrote:

Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest fighting, then withdraw from him so that he is struck down and dies.

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired of the Lord. The Lord answered, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family when he killed the Gibeonites.”

Ezra 9:13

After all that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and terrible guilt—though You, our God, have punished us less than our sins deserve and have allowed us to survive

Nehemiah 9:33

You are righteous concerning all that has come on us,
because You have acted faithfully,
while we have acted wickedly.

Psalm 25:5

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,
for You are the God of my salvation;
I wait for You all day long.

Psalm 38:22

Hurry to help me,
Lord, my Savior.

Psalm 55:23

God, You will bring them down
to the Pit of destruction;
men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

Psalm 68:20

Our God is a God of salvation,
and escape from death belongs to the Lord God.

Psalm 71:15-24

My mouth will tell about Your righteousness
and Your salvation all day long,
though I cannot sum them up.

Psalm 86:12-13

I will praise You with all my heart, Lord my God,
and will honor Your name forever.

Psalm 88:1

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.Lord, God of my salvation,
I cry out before You day and night.

Isaiah 12:2

Indeed, God is my salvation;
I will trust Him and not be afraid,
for Yah, the Lord,
is my strength and my song.
He has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 45:17

Israel will be saved by the Lord
with an everlasting salvation;
you will not be put to shame or humiliated
for all eternity.

Ezekiel 33:8

If I say to the wicked, ‘Wicked one, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to warn him about his way, that wicked person will die for his iniquity, yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

Daniel 9:7

Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel—those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.

Daniel 9:16

Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, may Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.

Hosea 4:2

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,
and adultery are rampant;
one act of bloodshed follows another.

Habakkuk 3:18

yet I will triumph in Yahweh;
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

Acts 18:6

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Acts 20:26

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of everyone’s blood,

Romans 10:3

Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.

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