Contemporary English Version
If I should die, I beg the earth not to cover my cry for justice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

O earth

Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

cover not

Genesis 4:11 Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.

Nehemiah 4:5 Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

Isaiah 26:21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Ezekiel 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.

let my cry

Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

Psalm 66:18,19 If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. . . .

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 58:9,10 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not. . . .

James 4:3,4 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences. . . .