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14Deliver{H8685)} me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud{H8762)} of thy righteousness.
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Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-19)I. David prays against the guilt of sin, and prays for the grace of God, enforcing both petitions from a plea taken from the glory of God, which he promises with thankfulness to show forth. 1. He prays against the guilt of sin, that he might be delivered from that, and promises that then he would praise God, Ps. 51:14. The particular sin he prays against is blood-guiltiness, the sin he had now bee…
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