¹⁴ My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

⁶⁷ And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.

¹¹ Then David gave way to bitter grief, and so did all the men who were with him:

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.

¹⁷ Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:

¹⁸ (It is recorded in the book of Jashar for teaching to the sons of Judah) and he said:

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

²⁰ Give no news of it in Gath, let it not be said in the streets of Ashkelon; or the daughters of the Philistines will be glad, the daughters of men without circumcision will be uplifted in joy.

²¹ O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.

²² From the blood of the dead, from the fat of the strong, the bow of Jonathan was not turned back, the sword of Saul did not come back unused.

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.

²⁴ O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses.

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

²⁶ I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.

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

⁶ I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

⁴¹ And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,

⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.