The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uri
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and