“Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
“How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!”
“How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! “Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.
How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.
“Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
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