In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.