Psalm 51:14 {50:16}
Good News Translation
Spare my life, O God, and save me, and I will gladly proclaim your righteousness.

New Revised Standard Version
Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.

Contemporary English Version
Keep me from any deadly sin. Only you can save me! Then I will shout and sing about your power to save.

New American Bible
Rescue me from violent bloodshed, God, my saving God, and my tongue will sing joyfully of your justice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

Deliver

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

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.

Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Genesis 42:22 And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

2 Samuel 3:28 And when David heard of it, after the thing was now done, he said: I, and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

2 Samuel 11:15-17 Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die. . . .

2 Samuel 12:9 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 21:1 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites.

bloodguiltiness [heb.

Ezekiel 33:8 When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

Hosea 4:2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

Acts 18:6 But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Acts 20:26 Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the blood of all men.

thou God

Psalm 38:22 Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.

Psalm 68:20 Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Psalm 88:1 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. [2] O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

Isaiah 45:17 Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall not be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.

Habakkuk 3:18 But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will joy in God my Jesus.

tongue

Psalm 35:28 And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day long.

Psalm 71:15-24 My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning, . . .

Psalm 86:12,13 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever: . . .

righteousness

Ezra 9:13 And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,

Nehemiah 9:33 And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.

Daniel 9:7,16 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee. . . .

Romans 10:3 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
13I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee. 14Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.15O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:9
Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Psalm 18:46
The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

Psalm 25:5
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

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

Psalm 35:28
And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day long.

Psalm 39:8
Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

Psalm 71:15
My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning,

Psalm 71:16
I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone.

Psalm 81:1
Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. [2] Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 101:1
A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing,

Psalm 119:172
My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice.

Psalm 126:2
Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.

Psalm 145:7
They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.

Daniel 9:14
And the Lord hath watched upon the evil, and hath brought it upon us: the Lord, our God, is just in all his works which he hath done: for we have not hearkened to his voice.

Psalm 51:13
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