2 Samuel 14:12-14

New American Standard Bible

¹² Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.” 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 like 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. Yet God does not take away life, but makes plans so that ^(E)the banished one will not be cast out from Him.