⁷ Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ^(A)‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

^9 (A)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, ^(B)to do what is evil in his sight? ^(C)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ^(D)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

¹² For you did it secretly, ^(A)but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” ^13 (B)David said to Nathan, ^(C)“I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, ^(D)“The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.