6. He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this thing, and because he had no pity.”
7. Then Nathan said to him, “You are the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: ‘I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
8. I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if that had been too little, I would have added to you much more.
9. Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites!
10. So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!’
11. Thus says Yahweh, ‘Look, I am going to raise up evil against you from within your house, and I will take your women before your eyes, and I will give them to your neighbor, and he shall sleep with your wives in broad daylight.
12. Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel in broad daylight!’ ”
13. Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh!” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh has also forgiven your sin; you shall not die.
14. But because you have utterly scorned Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you will certainly die.”
15. Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill.
16. David pleaded with God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.
17. The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he was not willing, and he did not eat any food with them.