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 35:28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
• 2 Sam 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
• Hos 4:2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
• Ps 26:9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
• Rom 10:3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
• Acts 20:26Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
• Gen 9:6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
• Ezek 33:8When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
• Neh 9:33Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
• Ps 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
• Ps 86:12–13I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
• Hab 3:18Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
• Isa 45:17But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• Ps 88:1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
• Ezra 9:13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
• 2 Sam 11:15–17And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
• 2 Sam 21:1Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
• Gen 42:22And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
• Ps 71:15–24My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
• Dan 9:7O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
• Ps 25:5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
• Ps 38:22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
• Ps 68:20He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
• Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
• Acts 18:6And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
• Dan 9:16O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
• 2 Sam 3:28And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

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