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19 “Israel, your leaders have been killed on the hills.
    How the mighty have fallen in battle!
20 Don’t tell it in Gath.
    Don’t announce it in the streets of Ashkelon.
If you do, the Philistine women will be happy.
    The daughters of the Philistines will rejoice.

21 “May there be no dew or rain on the mountains of Gilboa,
    and may their fields produce no grain,
because there the mighty warrior’s shield was dishonored.
    Saul’s shield will no longer be rubbed 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