²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, ^(A)as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has ^(B)held you back from coming to bloodshed and from ^(C)avenging^[a] yourself with your own hand, now then, ^(D)let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal.

³⁴ For indeed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has ^(A)kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely ^(B)by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal!”