# my son David
Saul speaks as if David were his son to show David that he loves him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# lifted up his voice and wept
The writer writes as if a voice were something a person could lift up with his hands. Alternate translation: "wept loudly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])