How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I cannot bear to see this disaster come upon my father."

The real mother, her heart full of love for her son, said to the king, "Please, Your Majesty, don't kill the child! Give it to her!" But the other woman said, "Don't give it to either of us; go on and cut it in two."

How can I endure it if this disaster comes on my people, and my own relatives are killed?"

So the LORD answers, "Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you.

"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.

So he got up and started back to his father. "He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him.

Esau continued to plead with his father: "Do you have only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!" He began to cry.

Then he kissed her and began to cry for joy.

When the angel had said this, all the people of Israel began to cry,

And may the LORD make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a home." So Naomi kissed them good-bye. But they started crying

When David had finished speaking, Saul said, "Is that really you, David my son?" And he started crying.

David and his men started crying and did not stop until they were completely exhausted.