Quotes About Innocence

And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?

So Amnonís attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the kingís virgin daughters wore.

Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.

And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.

The next morning, Jehu went out and stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?

Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.í

From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.