Psalm 139:19 {138:19}
Good News Translation
O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked! How I wish violent people would leave me alone!

New Revised Standard Version
O that you would kill the wicked, O God, and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me—

Contemporary English Version
How I wish that you would kill all cruel and heartless people and protect me from them!

New American Bible
When you would destroy the wicked, O God, the bloodthirsty depart from me!

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:

surely

Psalm 5:6 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 55:23 But 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, O Lord.

Psalm 64:7 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

Psalm 94:23 And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.

Isaiah 11:4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

depart from

Psalm 6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalm 119:115 Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Matthew 25:41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

Context
You Have Searched Me and Known Me
18I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still with thee. 19If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:20Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.…
Cross References
Psalm 5:6
Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

Psalm 6:8
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalm 26:9
Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

Psalm 59:2
Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalm 119:115
Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.

Isaiah 11:4
But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Psalm 139:18
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