Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison.

Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons --

Because they rebelled against the words of God, And despised the counsel of the Most High,

The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he is like a thief.

As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, [So] the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit lewdness.

And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.