1 Samuel 24:9-16

9And David said to Saul: “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Indeed David seeks your harm’?

10Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

11Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it.

12Let the Lord judge between you and me, and let the Lord avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.

13As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand shall not be against you.

14After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

15Therefore let the Lord be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.”

16So it was, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.