2 Samuel 14:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ Go to the king and speak to him as follows.’ And Joab put the words into her mouth.

⁴ When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, ‘Help, O king!’ ⁵ The king asked her, ‘What is your trouble?’ She answered, ‘Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.