1 Samuel 20:7-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. If he will say, 'It is well,' then your servant will have peace. But if he will be angry, know that his malice has reached its height.

8. Therefore, show mercy to your servant. For you have brought me, your servant, into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is any iniquity in me, you may kill me, and you shall not lead me in to your father."

9. And Jonathan said: "May this be far from you. For certainly, if I ever realized that any wickedness was determined by my father against you, I would not be able to do anything other than report it to you."

10. And David responded to Jonathan, "Who will repeat it to me, if your father may perhaps answer you harshly about me?"

11. And Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." And when they both had gone out into the field,

12. Jonathan said before David: "O Lord, God of Israel, if I will discover a decision by my father, tomorrow, or the day after, and if there will be anything good concerning David, and yet I do not immediately send to you and make it known to you,

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