³⁴ Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.

²¹ So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

¹² And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.

¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

¹⁰ Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

¹¹ Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

⁹ And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.