Psalm 94:21

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

²⁰ Can a corrupt throne—
one that creates trouble by law—
become Your ally?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.
²² But the Lord is my refuge;
my God is the rock of my protection.

Innocent Blood

Righteous Man

Righteous One

No

Proverbs 17:15

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the just—
both are detestable to the Lord.

Exodus 23:7

Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.

Psalm 59:3

Lord, look! They set an ambush for me.
Powerful men attack me,
but not because of any sin or rebellion of mine.

Matthew 27:1

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

1 Kings 21:19

Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs licked Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick your blood!’”

Psalm 2:1-3

Why do the nations rebel
and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have surrounded me;
a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;
they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalm 56:6

They stir up strife, they lurk;
they watch my steps
while they wait to take my life.

Psalm 106:38

They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and daughters
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land became polluted with blood.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say—“Come with us!
Let’s set an ambush and kill someone.
Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!

Proverbs 1:16

because their feet run toward trouble
and they hurry to commit murder.

Jeremiah 26:15

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain the Lord has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.”

Ezekiel 22:6

“Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:12

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:27

“Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Matthew 23:32-36

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins!

Matthew 27:4

“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!”

Acts 4:5-7

The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem

Acts 4:27-28

“For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Acts 7:58-60

They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

James 5:6

You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Revelation 17:6

Then I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.