Psalms 51:14

Psalms 51:14. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

This was a wonderful prayer, but it was not wonderful that David should get relief when he called his sin by its right name. Another man, in his place, might have said, "I did not kill Uriah. It is true that I had him put where he was likely to be slain, but then the sword devoureth one as well as another." That was the way that David did hypocritically talk at first; but now that his conscience has been aroused, he confesses that he is a murderer: "Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God."