21:13a David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed.

David replied to Gad, “This is an awful situation for me! (FBV)
-or-
David told Gad, “All these punishments are terrible!

21:13b Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD,

Let Yahweh himself punish me,
-or-
I choose for Yahweh to punish me,

21:13c for His mercies are very great;

because he is merciful. (MSG)
-or-
because he is kind and he forgives people.

21:13:b–c (combined)

⌊I know that⌋ Yahweh is merciful. Therefore let me be punished by Yahweh.”

21:13d but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

I do not want people to punish me.”
-or-
I do not want to be attacked by men!” (NET08)

© 2020 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.