'Blood' in the Bible

For He who requires blood remembers them;He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

The sorrows of those who have bartered for another god will be multiplied;I shall not pour out their drink offerings of blood,Nor will I take their names upon my lips.

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

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

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

That your foot may shatter them in blood,The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

He will rescue their life from oppression and violence,And their blood will be precious in his sight;

And turned their rivers to blood,And their streams, they could not drink.

They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;And there was no one to bury them.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”Let there be known among the nations in our sight,Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

He turned their waters into bloodAnd caused their fish to die.

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