19 [a]Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places!
(A)How have the mighty fallen!
20 (B)Tell it not in Gath,
Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
Or (C)the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice,
The daughters of (D)the uncircumcised will exult.
21 (E)O mountains of Gilboa,
(F)Let not dew or rain be on you, nor fields of offerings;
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
The shield of Saul, not (G)anointed with oil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:19 Lit The