2 Samuel 11:14

Contemporary English Version 1995

Early the next morning, David wrote a letter and told Uriah to deliver it to Joab.

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You people of Judah are so deceitful that you even fool yourselves, and you can't change.

We humans are only a breath; none of us are truly great. All of us together weigh less than a puff of air.

You plan brutal crimes, and your lying words cut like a sharp razor.

Don't let me do wrong on purpose, Lord, or let sin have control over my life. Then I will be innocent, and not guilty of some terrible fault.

Why did you disobey me and do such a horrible thing? You murdered Uriah the Hittite by letting the Ammonites kill him, so you could take his wife.