Psalms 51:14

David asks deliverance from bloodguilt and vows to sing aloud of God's righteousness. He seeks freedom from the guilt of his grave sin.

Cross-references · 27

• Ps 35:28Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.
• 2 Sam 12:9Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
• Hos 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
• Ps 26:9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
• Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Acts 20:26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
• Gen 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
• Ezek 33:8If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
• Neh 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
• Ps 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
• Ps 86:12–13I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.
• Hab 3:18yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
• Isa 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
• Ps 88:1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
• Ezra 9:13After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
• 2 Sam 11:15–17In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
• 2 Sam 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
• Gen 42:22And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
• Ps 71:15–24My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
• Dan 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
• Ps 25:5Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
• Ps 38:22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
• Ps 68:20Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
• Isa 12:2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
• Acts 18:6But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
• Dan 9:16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
• 2 Sam 3:28Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

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