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20 As she was riding her donkey, going down a trail on the hillside, David and his soldiers appeared, descending toward her, and she met up with them. 21 David had just been saying, “What a waste of time—guarding all this man’s stuff in the wilderness so that nothing of his went missing! He has repaid me evil instead of good! 22 May God deal harshly with me, David,[a] and worse still if I leave alive even one single one who urinates on a wall[b] belonging to him come morning!”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:22 LXX; MT with David’s enemies
  2. 1 Samuel 25:22 Descriptive phrase meaning "a male"; also in 25:34

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