¹⁹ The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!

²⁷ How have the great ones been made low, and the arms of war broken!

²⁵ How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places.

¹⁰ And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

⁷ So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.

¹⁶ The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

¹ How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

² For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

² In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.

²³ Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

⁸ Now on the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his three sons dead on the earth in Mount Gilboa.

⁷ For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

⁸ And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?