Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

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

Holman Bible

Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God,
the God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing of 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 transgressors about your ways, and sinners will turn to you. 14 Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness. 15 Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.


Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

""Why did you despise what the LORD has promised by doing what is detestable in his sight? ""You struck down Uriah the Hittite with a battle sword. ""You took his wife to be your own. ""You killed him with the sword of the Ammonite army.

Psalm 35:28

My tongue will declare your righteousness and praise you all day long. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David.

Psalm 26:9

Do not group me with sinners, nor include me with men who shed blood.

Genesis 9:6

"Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.

Genesis 42:22

"Didn't I tell you!" Reuben replied. ""Don't wrong the kid!' I said, but would you listen? No! Now it's payback time!"

2 Samuel 3:28

Later on, David found out about it and proclaimed, "Let me and my kingdom remain guiltless forever in the LORD's presence for the death of Ner's son Abner.

2 Samuel 11:15-17

In the message, he wrote: "Assign Uriah to the most difficult fighting at the battle front, and then withdraw from him so that he will be struck down and killed."

2 Samuel 21:1

One time there was a famine during David's reign that went on for three straight years. David sought the LORD, who said, "Saul and his household are guilty because he executed the Gibeonites."

Ezra 9:13

"After all that has happened to us because of our evil behavior, and because of our great sin considering that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us this deliverance

Nehemiah 9:33

You are righteous in all that is happening to us, because you have acted faithfully while we have practiced evil.

Psalm 25:5

Guide me in your truth and teach me; for you are the God who delivers me. All day long I have waited for you.

Psalm 38:22

Come quickly and help me, Lord, my deliverer. To the Director: To Jeduthun. A Davidic Psalm.

Psalm 55:23

But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Psalm 68:20

God is for us the God of our deliverance. The Lord GOD rescues us from death.

Psalm 71:15-24

I will declare your righteousness and your salvation every day, though I do not fully understand what the outcome will be.

Psalm 86:12-13

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole being; and I will honor your name continuously.

Psalm 88:1

LORD, God of my salvation, by day and by night I cry out before you.

Isaiah 12:2

"Look! God yes God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid. For the LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."

Isaiah 45:17

But Israel will be saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you won't be put to shame or disgraced ever again."

Ezekiel 33:8

If I should say to a certain wicked person, "You wicked man, you're certainly about to die,' but you don't warn him to turn from his wicked behavior, he'll die in his guilt, but I'll seek retribution for his bloodshed from you.

Daniel 9:7

"To you, Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us, open humiliation even to this day, to the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, both those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the lands to which you drove them because of their unfaithful acts that they committed against you.

Daniel 9:16

Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, please turn your anger and wrath away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become an embarrassment to all of those around us.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

Habakkuk 3:18

as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD. I will find my joy in the God who delivers me.

Acts 18:6

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."

Acts 20:26

I therefore declare to you today that I'm not responsible for the blood of any of you,

Romans 10:3

For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness.

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