## Please let your servant speak a further word to my master the king ##

The woman is requesting permission to speak to King David on a new topic. AT: "Please may I say something to you."

## Speak on ##

"You may speak to me"

## Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? ##

This question is asked to rebuke David. AT: "What you have just said proved that you did wrong." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again ##

"after we die we can not be brought back again" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

## God ... finds a way to bring back one he has driven away from himself ##

"God brings back someone whom he has chased away from himself and you should bring back your son who has run away from you." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])