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The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 20
Chapter 256 of 1,075
Canonical reference 1 Samuel 20
English
World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)
1. David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
2. He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”
3. David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
4. Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
5. David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
6. If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
7. If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
8. Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”
9. Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”
10. Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”
11. Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.
12. Jonathan said to David, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you?
13. The LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May the LORD be with you as he has been with my father.
14. You shall not only show me the loving kindness of the LORD while I still live, that I not die;
15. but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the LORD has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.”
16. So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “The LORD will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
17. Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
18. Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
19. When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.
20. I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
21. Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come, for there is peace to you and no danger, as the LORD lives.
22. But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go your way, for the LORD has sent you away.
23. Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.”
24. So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.
25. The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.
26. Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
27. On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why didn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?”
28. Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
29. He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”
30. Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
31. For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
32. Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
33. Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
34. So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.
35. In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
36. He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37. When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
38. Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
39. But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40. Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
41. As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept with one another, and David wept the most.
42. Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the LORD’s name, saying, ‘The LORD is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.
French
Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)
1. David s’enfuit de Naioth en Rama et, étant venu, il dit devant Jonathas : « Qu’ai-je fait ? quel est mon crime, quel est mon péché devant ton père, pour qu’il en veuille à ma vie ? »
2. Jonathas lui dit : « Loin de là ! Tu ne mourras point. Mon père ne fait aucune chose, grande ou petite, sans m’en faire part ; pourquoi donc me cacherait-il celle-là ? Il n’en est rien. »
3. David répondit avec un serment : « Ton père sait bien que j’ai trouvé grâce à tes yeux, et il aura dit : Que Jonathas ne le sache pas, de peur qu’il en ait de la peine. Mais, aussi vrai que Yahwehest vivant et que ton âme est vivante ! il n’y a qu’un pas entre la mort et moi. »
4. Jonathas dit à David : « Tout ce que ton âme dira, je le ferai pour toi. »
5. Et David dit à Jonathas : « Voici, c’est demain la nouvelle lune, et je devrais m’asseoir auprès du roi pour le repas ; laisse-moi partir, et je me cacherai dans les champs jusqu’au soir du troisième jour.
6. Si ton père s’aperçoit de mon absence, tu lui diras : David m’a prié de lui laisser faire une course à Bethléem, sa ville, parce qu’il y a là le sacrifice annuel pour toute sa famille.
7. S’il dit : C’est bien ! ton serviteur peut être en paix ; mais s’il se met en colère, sache que le mal est bien résolu de sa part.
8. Use donc de bonté envers ton serviteur, puisque c’est par une alliance au nom de Yahwehque tu as attiré vers toi ton serviteur. S’il y a quelque faute en moi, mets-moi à mort toi-même, car pourquoi me mènerais-tu à ton père ? »
9. Jonathas lui dit : « Loin de toi cette pensée ! Car si j’apprends vraiment que le mal est résolu de la part de mon père pour venir sur toi, je jure de t’en informer. »
10. David dit à Jonathas : « Qui m’informera de cela ou de ce que ton père répondrait de fâcheux ? »
11. Jonathas dit à David : « Viens, sortons dans les champs ; » et ils sortirent tous deux dans les champs.
12. Jonathas dit à David : « Yahweh, Dieu d’Israël ! Je sonderai mon père demain ou après-demain, et si cela va bien pour David, et que je n’envoie pas vers toi pour t’en informer,
13. que Yahwehtraite Jonathas dans toute sa rigueur ! S’il plaît à mon père de te faire du mal, je t’en informerai aussi et je te ferai partir, afin que tu t’en ailles en paix, et que Yahwehsoit avec toi, comme il a été avec mon père !
14. Et si je suis encore vivant, veuille user envers moi de la bonté de Yahweh, et, si je meurs,
15. ne pas retirer à jamais ta bonté de ma maison, pas même lorsque Yahwehretranchera de dessus la face de la terre chacun des ennemis de David ! »
16. C’est ainsi que Jonathas fit alliance avec la maison de David, et que Yahwehtira vengeance des ennemis de David.
17. Jonathas adjura encore une fois David par l’amour qu’il avait pour lui, car il l’aimait comme son âme.
18. Jonathas lui dit : « C’est demain la nouvelle lune ; on remarquera que ta place est vide.
19. Le troisième jour, tu descendras promptement et tu viendras au lieu où tu étais caché, au jour de l’affaire, et tu resteras près de la pierre d’Ezel.
20. Je tirerai trois flèches du côté de la pierre, comme si je visais à un but.
21. Et voici, j’enverrai le garçon en lui disant : Va, retrouve les flèches. Si je dis au garçon : Voici, les flèches sont en deçà toi, prends-les ! alors, viens, car tout va bien pour toi, et il n’y a nul danger, Yahwehest vivant !
22. Mais si je parle ainsi au garçon : Voici, les flèches sont au delà de toi, alors va-t-en, car Yahwehte fait partir.
23. Et quant à la parole que nous avons dite, moi et toi, voici que Yahwehest à jamais entre toi et moi. »
24. David se cacha dans les champs. La nouvelle lune venue, le roi prit place au festin pour manger ;
25. comme à l’ordinaire, le roi s’assit sur son siège, sur le siège qui était près du mur ; Jonathas se leva, et Abner s’assit à côté de Saül et la place de David resta vide.
26. Saül ne dit rien ce jour-là, car, disait-il, « quelque chose lui est arrivé ; il n’est pas pur, certainement il n’est pas pur. »
27. Le lendemain, second jour de la nouvelle lune, la place de David était encore vide ; et Saül dit à Jonathas, son fils : « Pourquoi le fils d’Isaï n’est-il pas venu au repas, ni hier ni aujourd’hui ? »
28. Jonathas répondit à Saül : « David m’a demandé avec instances la permission d’aller jusqu’à Bethléem.
29. Il a dit : Laisse-moi aller, je te prie, car nous avons dans la ville un sacrifice de famille, et mon frère m’a commandé d’y assister ; si donc j’ai trouvé grâce à tes yeux, permets que je m’y rende et que je voie mes frères ! C’est pourquoi il n’est pas venu à la table du roi. »
30. Alors la colère de Saül s’enflamma contre Jonathas, et il lui dit : « Fils d’une femme perverse et rebelle, ne sais-je pas que tu as pour ami le fils d’Isaï, à ta honte et à la honte de la nudité de ta mère ?
31. Car aussi longtemps que le fils d’Isaï sera vivant sur la terre, il n’y aura de sécurité ni pour toi, ni pour ta royauté. Et maintenant, envoie-le prendre et amène-le-moi, car c’est un fils de la mort. »
32. Jonathas répondit à Saül, son père, et lui dit : « Pourquoi serait-il mis à mort ? Qu’a-t-il fait ? »
33. Et Saül brandit sa lance contre lui pour le frapper. Jonathas comprit que c’était chose arrêtée chez son père de faire périr David.
34. Jonathas se leva donc de table dans une violente colère, et ne prit pas de nourriture, le second jour de la nouvelle lune ; car il était affligé à cause de David, parce que son père l’avait outragé.
35. Le lendemain matin, Jonathas alla aux champs, selon qu’il était convenu avec David ; un petit garçon l’accompagnait.
36. Il dit à son garçon : « Cours, retrouve les flèches que je vais tirer. » Le garçon courut, et Jonathas tira une flèche de manière à le dépasser.
37. Lorsque le garçon arriva à l’endroit de la flèche que Jonathas avait tirée, Jonathas cria après le garçon et dit : « La flèche n’est-elle pas plus loin que toi ? »
38. Jonathas cria encore après le garçon : « Vite, hâte-toi, ne t’arrête pas ! » Et le garçon de Jonathas ramassa la flèche et revint vers son maître.
39. Le garçon ne savait rien ; Jonathas et David seuls comprenaient la chose.
40. Jonathas donna ses armes au garçon qui était avec lui, et lui dit : « Va, et portes-les à la ville. »
41. Dès que le garçon fut parti, David se leva du côté du midi et, se jetant la face contre terre, il se prosterna trois fois devant Jonathas ; puis ils s’embrassèrent l’un l’autre et pleurèrent au sujet l’un de l’autre, au point que David fondit en larmes.
42. Et Jonathas dit à David : « Va en paix, après que nous avons juré l’un et l’autre, au nom de Yahweh, en disant : Que Yahwehsoit entre moi et toi, entre ma postérité et ta postérité à jamais ! »
Latin
Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)
1. Fugit autem David de Najoth, quæ est in Ramatha, veniensque locutus est coram Jonatha: Quid feci? quæ est iniquitas mea, et quod peccatum meum in patrem tuum, quia quærit animam meam?
2. Qui dixit ei: Absit, non morieris: neque enim faciet pater meus quidquam grande vel parvum, nisi prius indicaverit mihi: hunc ergo celavit me pater meus sermonem tantummodo? nequaquam erit istud.
3. Et juravit rursum Davidi. Et ille ait: Scit profecto pater tuus quia inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, et dicet: Nesciat hoc Jonathas, ne forte tristetur. Quinimmo vivit Dominus, et vivit anima tua, quia uno tantum (ut ita dicam) gradu ego morsque dividimur.
4. Et ait Jonathas ad David: Quodcumque dixerit mihi anima tua, faciam tibi.
5. Dixit autem David ad Jonathan: Ecce calendæ sunt crastino, et ego ex more sedere soleo juxta regem ad vescendum: dimitte ergo me ut abscondar in agro usque ad vesperam diei tertiæ.
6. Si respiciens requisierit me pater tuus, respondebis ei: Rogavit me David ut iret celeriter in Bethlehem civitatem suam, quia victimæ solemnes ibi sunt universis contribulibus suis.
7. Si dixerit: Bene: pax erit servo tuo. Si autem fuerit iratus, scito quia completa est malitia ejus.
8. Fac ergo misericordiam in servum tuum, quia fœdus Domini me famulum tuum tecum inire fecisti: si autem est iniquitas aliqua in me, tu me interfice, et ad patrem tuum ne introducas me.
9. Et ait Jonathas: Absit hoc a te: neque enim fieri potest, ut si certe cognovero completam esse patris mei malitiam contra te, non annuntiem tibi.
10. Responditque David ad Jonathan: Quis renuntiabit mihi, si quid forte responderit tibi pater tuus dure de me?
11. Et ait Jonathas ad David: Veni, et egrediamur foras in agrum. Cumque exissent ambo in agrum,
12. ait Jonathas ad David: Domine Deus Israël, si investigavero sententiam patris mei crastino vel perendie, et aliquid boni fuerit super David, et non statim misero ad te, et notum tibi fecero,
13. hæc faciat Dominus Jonathæ, et hæc addat. Si autem perseveraverit patris mei malitia adversum te, revelabo aurem tuam, et dimittam te, ut vadas in pace, et sit Dominus tecum, sicut fuit cum patre meo.
14. Et si vixero, facies mihi misericordiam Domini: si vero mortuus fuero,
15. non auferes misericordiam tuam a domo mea usque in sempiternum, quando eradicaverit Dominus inimicos David, unumquemque de terra: auferat Jonathan de domo sua, et requirat Dominus de manu inimicorum David.
16. Pepigit ergo Jonathas fœdus cum domo David: et requisivit Dominus de manu inimicorum David.
17. Et addidit Jonathas dejerare David, eo quod diligeret illum: sicut enim animam suam, ita diligebat eum.
18. Dixitque ad eum Jonathas: Cras calendæ sunt, et requireris:
19. requiretur enim sessio tua usque perendie. Descendes ergo festinus, et venies in locum ubi celandus es in die qua operari licet, et sedebis juxta lapidem cui nomen est Ezel.
20. Et ego tres sagittas mittam juxta eum, et jaciam quasi exercens me ad signum.
21. Mittam quoque et puerum, dicens ei: Vade, et affer mihi sagittas.
22. Si dixero puero: Ecce sagittæ intra te sunt, tolle eas: tu veni ad me, quia pax tibi est, et nihil est mali, vivit Dominus. Si autem sic locutus fuero puero: Ecce sagittæ ultra te sunt: vade in pace, quia dimisit te Dominus.
23. De verbo autem quod locuti sumus ego et tu, sit Dominus inter me et te usque in sempiternum.
24. Absconditus est ergo David in agro, et venerunt calendæ, et sedit rex ad comedendum panem.
25. Cumque sedisset rex super cathedram suam (secundum consuetudinem) quæ erat juxta parietem, surrexit Jonathas, et sedit Abner ex latere Saul: vacuusque apparuit locus David.
26. Et non est locutus Saul quidquam in die illa: cogitabat enim quod forte evenisset ei, ut non esset mundus, nec purificatus.
27. Cumque illuxisset dies secunda post calendas, rursus apparuit vacuus locus David. Dixitque Saul ad Jonathan filium suum: Cur non venit filius Isai nec heri nec hodie ad vescendum?
28. Responditque Jonathas Sauli: Rogavit me obnixe ut iret in Bethlehem,
29. et ait: Dimitte me, quoniam sacrificium solemne est in civitate, unus de fratribus meis accersivit me: nunc ergo si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, vadam cito, et videbo fratres meos. Ob hanc causam non venit ad mensam regis.
30. Iratus autem Saul adversum Jonathan, dixit ei: Fili mulieris virum ultro rapientis, numquid ignoro quia diligis filium Isai in confusionem tuam, et in confusionem ignominiosæ matris tuæ?
31. Omnibus enim diebus quibus filius Isai vixerit super terram, non stabilieris tu, neque regnum tuum. Itaque jam nunc mitte, et adduc eum ad me: quia filius mortis est.
32. Respondens autem Jonathas Sauli patri suo, ait: Quare morietur? quid fecit?
33. Et arripuit Saul lanceam ut percuteret eum. Et intellexit Jonathas quod definitum esset a patre suo, ut interficeret David.
34. Surrexit ergo Jonathas a mensa in ira furoris, et non comedit in die calendarum secunda panem. Contristatus est enim super David, eo quod confudisset eum pater suus.
35. Cumque illuxisset mane, venit Jonathas in agrum juxta placitum David, et puer parvulus cum eo.
36. Et ait ad puerum suum: Vade, et affer mihi sagittas quas ego jacio. Cumque puer cucurrisset, jecit aliam sagittam trans puerum.
37. Venit itaque puer ad locum jaculi quod miserat Jonathas: et clamavit Jonathas post tergum pueri, et ait: Ecce ibi est sagitta porro ultra te.
38. Clamavitque iterum Jonathas post tergum pueri, dicens: Festina velociter, ne steteris. Collegit autem puer Jonathæ sagittas, et attulit ad dominum suum:
39. et quid ageretur, penitus ignorabat, tantummodo enim Jonathas et David rem noverant.
40. Dedit ergo Jonathas arma sua puero, et dixit ei: Vade, et defer in civitatem.
41. Cumque abiisset puer, surrexit David de loco qui vergebat ad austrum, et cadens pronus in terram, adoravit tertio: et osculantes se alterutrum, fleverunt pariter, David autem amplius.
42. Dixit ergo Jonathas ad David: Vade in pace: quæcumque juravimus ambo in nomine Domini, dicentes: Dominus sit inter me et te, et inter semen meum et semen tuum usque in sempiternum.
43. Et surrexit David, et abiit: sed et Jonathas ingressus est civitatem.
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Verses in this chapter
- Verse 1David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before you…
- Verse 2He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to…
- Verse 3David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan kn…
- Verse 4Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
- Verse 5David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may…
- Verse 6If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is…
- Verse 7If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
- Verse 8Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you; but if there is …
- Verse 9Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then would…
- Verse 10Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”
- Verse 11Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.
- Verse 12Jonathan said to David, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third…
- Verse 13The LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you a…
- Verse 14You shall not only show me the loving kindness of the LORD while I still live, that I not die;
- Verse 15but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the LORD has cut off every one of the enemies of…
- Verse 16So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “The LORD will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
- Verse 17Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
- Verse 18Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
- Verse 19When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by th…
- Verse 20I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
- Verse 21Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take …
- Verse 22But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go your way, for the LORD has sent you away.
- Verse 23Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.”
- Verse 24So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.
- Verse 25The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, b…
- Verse 26Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not…
- Verse 27On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why didn’t the son o…
- Verse 28Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
- Verse 29He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have f…
- Verse 30Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you hav…
- Verse 31For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and br…
- Verse 32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
- Verse 33Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
- Verse 34So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, beca…
- Verse 35In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
- Verse 36He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
- Verse 37When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow…
- Verse 38Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
- Verse 39But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
- Verse 40Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
- Verse 41As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. The…
- Verse 42Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the LORD’s name, saying, ‘The LORD is between me and you, and…