1 It was told Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

2 So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the troops; for the troops heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”

3 The troops stole into the city that day as soldiers steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

2 Samuel 19:1-4, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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