So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
Why have you despised the word of the Lord, by doing evil in His sight? You have struck and killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, you have taken his wife as your wife, and you have slaughtered him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Also keep Your servant back from presumptuous sins; Let them not rule over me; Then I will be innocent, And I will be blameless of great wrongdoing.
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
¶People of low standing are only breath, and people of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up. Together they are lighter than breath.
¶“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?