If then you [will] deal mercifully and justly with my lord, [tell me], and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.

And the days of Israel drew near for him to die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If I have found favor before you, put your hand under my thigh, and you shall execute mercy and truth toward me, so as not to bury me in Egypt.

And the men said to her, Our life for yours, [even] unto death. And she said, When the Lord has delivered the city to you, you shall deal mercifully and truly with me.

And Naomi said to her daughters-in-law, Go now, return each to the house of her mother: the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; but bind them about your neck:

[ 20:15A] [should it happen] that the name of Jonathan be discovered by the house of David, then let the Lord seek out the enemies of David.

[This translation omits this verse.]

So they both made a covenant before the Lord; and David dwelt in Caene, and Jonathan went to his home.

God, [even] God is the Lord, and [even] God Himself knows, and Israel shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let Him not deliver us this day.

And Absalom said to Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, and I will send you to the king, saying, Why did I come out of Geshur? It would have been better for me to have remained there. And now, behold, I have not seen the face of the king; but if there is iniquity in me, then put me to death.

if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

For if I am doing wrong, and have done anything worthy of death, I am not trying to escape a death sentence; but if there is nothing in these things of which these [people] are accusing me, no one is able to deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar."

And David went out to meet them, and said to them, If you have come peaceably to me, let my heart be at peace with you; but if [you have come] to betray me to my enemies unfaithfully, [may] the God of your fathers look upon it, and bring judgment.

And I said in my amazement, Every man is a liar.