Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in You.

"Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.

And Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Do not sin against the boy'; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us."

Afterward, when David heard [it,] he said, "My kingdom and I [are] guiltless before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die."

Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And [some] of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

'Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife [to be] your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, "[It is] because of Saul and [his] bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites."

"When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked [man,] you shall surely die!' and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

[By] swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook [his] garments and said to them, "Your blood [be] upon your [own] heads; I [am] clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

"Therefore I testify to you this day that I [am] innocent of the blood of all [men.]

Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

Our God [is] the God of salvation; And to GOD the Lord [belong] escapes from death.

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to "Mahalath Leannoth." A Contemplation of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

Behold, God [is] my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; 'For YAH, the LORD, [is] my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.' "

[But] Israel shall be saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forever and ever.

Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness [And] of Your praise all the day long.

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness [And] Your salvation all the day, For I do not know [their] limits.

O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this [day] I declare Your wondrous works.

Also Your righteousness, O God, [is] very high, You who have done great things; O God, who [is] like You?

You shall increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You, And my soul, which You have redeemed.

I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify Your name forevermore.

For great [is] Your mercy toward me, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

"And after all that has come upon 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] deliverance as this,

However You [are] just in all that has befallen us; For You have dealt faithfully, But we have done wickedly.

"O Lord, righteousness [belongs] to You, but to us shame of face, as [it is] this day -- to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

" O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury 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 [are] a reproach to all [those] around us.

For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.