Catholic Public Domain Version
"The illustrious of Israel have been killed upon your mountains. How could the valiant have fallen? "
— 2 Samuel 1:19, Catholic Public Domain Version
“The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!”
“ Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen! ”
“"Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!”
“The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!”
“The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?”
“The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!”
“The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!”
And David said to him: “Your blood is upon your own head. For your own mouth has spoken against you, saying: ‘I have killed the Christ of the Lord.’ ”
Then David mourned a lamentation over Saul and over his son Jonathan, in this way.
(And he instructed that they should teach the sons of Judah the bow, just as it is written in the Book of the Just.) And he said: “Consider, O Israel, on behalf of those who are dead, wounded upon your heights:
The illustrious of Israel have been killed upon your mountains. How could the valiant have fallen?
Do not choose to announce it in Gath, and do not announce it in the crossroads of Ashkelon. Otherwise, the daughters of the Philistines may rejoice; otherwise, the daughters of the uncircumcised may exult.
O mountains of Gilboa, let neither dew, nor rain fall over you, and may these not be the fields of the first-fruits. For in that place, the shield of the valiant was cast away, the shield of Saul, as if he had not been anointed with oil.
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the strong, the arrow of Jonathan never turned back, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.