29 For if a man, at any time, will rise up, pursuing you and seeking your life, the life of my lord will be preserved, as if in the sheave of the living, with the Lord your God. But the lives of your enemies will be spun around, as if with the force of a whirling sling.
30 Therefore, when the Lord will have done for you, my lord, all the good that he has spoken about you, and when he will have appointed you as leader over Israel,
31 this will not be for you a regret or a scruple of the heart, my lord, that you had shed innocent blood, or had taken revenge for yourself. And when the Lord will have done well for my lord, you shall remember your handmaid.'
32 And David said to Abigail: 'Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me. And blessed is your eloquence.
33 And blessed are you, who prevented me today from going to blood, and from taking revenge for myself with my own hand.
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