2 Samuel 14:12-14

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹² Then the woman said, “Please let your maidservant 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 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.