20 ‘Tell it not in Gath,
    proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad,
    lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.

21 ‘Mountains of Gilboa,
    may you have neither dew nor rain,
    may no showers fall on your terraced fields.[a]
For there the shield of the mighty was despised,
    the shield of Saul – no longer rubbed with oil.

22 ‘From the blood of the slain,
    from the flesh of the mighty,
the bow of Jonathan did not turn back,
    the sword of Saul did not return unsatisfied.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Or / nor fields that yield grain for offerings