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 35:28My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
• 2 Sam 12:9Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
• Hos 4:2There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
• Ps 26:9Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
• Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
• Acts 20:26Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
• Gen 9:6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
• Ezek 33:8When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
• Neh 9:33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
• Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
• Ps 86:12–13I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.
• Hab 3:18yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
• Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
• Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
• Ezra 9:13“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
• 2 Sam 11:15–17He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
• 2 Sam 21:1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
• Gen 42:22Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
• Ps 71:15–24My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
• Dan 9:7Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
• Ps 25:5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
• Ps 38:22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
• Ps 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
• Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
• Acts 18:6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
• Dan 9:16Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
• 2 Sam 3:28Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

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