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19 “Your beauty, Israel, lies slain on your high places!
    O, how the valiant have fallen!
20 Don’t make it known in Gath!
    Don’t declare it in the avenues of Ashkelon!
Otherwise, the daughters of Philistia will rejoice;
    and the daughters of the uncircumcised will triumph.
21 Mountains of Gilboa,
    let no dew or rain fall on you,
        and may none of your fields be filled with plenty,
because in that place the shield of the valiant ones was defiled,
    the shield of Saul without an anointing with oil.

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19 “A gazelle[a] lies slain on your heights, Israel.
    How the mighty(A) have fallen!(B)

20 “Tell it not in Gath,(C)
    proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,(D)
lest the daughters of the Philistines(E) be glad,
    lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.(F)

21 “Mountains of Gilboa,(G)
    may you have neither dew(H) nor rain,(I)
    may no showers fall on your terraced fields.[b](J)
For there the shield of the mighty was despised,
    the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:19 Gazelle here symbolizes a human dignitary.
  2. 2 Samuel 1:21 Or / nor fields that yield grain for offerings