Psalm 94:21 {93:21}
Good News Translation
who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.

New Revised Standard Version
They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.

Contemporary English Version
who gang up to murder innocent victims.

New American Bible
Those who conspire against the just and condemn the innocent to death?

Douay-Rheims Bible
They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.

gather

Psalm 2:1-3 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Psalm 22:16 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

Psalm 59:3 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Proverbs 1:11,16 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . .

Matthew 27:1 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

Acts 4:5-7,27,28 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. . . .

condemn

Exodus 23:7 Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

1 Kings 21:19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Jeremiah 26:15 But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city, and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in your hearing.

Ezekiel 22:6 Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

Ezekiel 12:27 Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they that say: The visions that this man seeth, is for many days to come: and this man prophesieth of times afar off.

Matthew 23:32-36 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. . . .

Acts 7:52,58-60 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers. . . .

James 5:6 You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted you not.

Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her, with great admiration.

Context
The LORD Will Not Forget His People
20Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? 21They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.22But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:4
Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it.

Exodus 23:7
Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

1 Samuel 19:5
And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing David, who is without fault?

Psalm 56:6
They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

Psalm 59:3
For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Psalm 106:38
And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,

Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Isaiah 5:23
That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Daniel 6:15
But those men perceiving the king's design, said to him: Know thou, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree which the king hath made, may be altered.

Psalm 94:20
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