2 Samuel 19:3-5

Good News Translation

³ They went back into the city quietly, like soldiers who are ashamed because they are running away from battle. ⁴ The king covered his face and cried loudly, “O my son! My son Absalom! Absalom, my son!”

⁵ Joab went to the king's house and said to him, “Today you have humiliated your men—the men who saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and of your wives and concubines.