2 Samuel 14:13-15

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹³ The woman said, “^(A)Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back ^(B)his banished one. ¹⁴ For ^(C)we will surely die and are ^(D)like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ^[a]ways so that ^(E)the banished one will not be cast out from him. ¹⁵ Now ^[b]the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king is that the people have made me afraid; so your maidservant said, ‘Let me now speak to the king, perhaps the king will perform the ^[c]request of his maidservant.