Saul and Jonathan were beloved and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they have not been separated. They have been swifter than eagles, they have been stronger than lions.

For what great nation is there whose God is near to it, as Jehovah our God is to us, in all that we call upon Him?

And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this Law which I am setting before you this day?

So it happened the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

In that day shall the Branch of Jehovah be beautiful and honorable, and the fruit of the earth excellent and glorious for those who have escaped from Israel.

For He grows up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of the dry ground. He has no form nor splendor that we should regard Him, nor anything spectacular that we should desire Him.

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He cast down the beauty of Israel from the heavens to the earth and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger.

And I fed the flock of slaughter, the truly poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds. And I fed the flock.

And I took My staff, Beauty, and chopped it in two, that I might break My covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan, slain on your high places.

How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe unto us, for we have sinned.