Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your descendents as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendents, and they shall inherit it forever.
As for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your anger from them.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
I am sorry that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried out unto the Lord all night.
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD was sorry that he had made Saul king over Israel.