In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.
Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?