2 Samuel 1:17-21

David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan 17David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,

18and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):

19“A gazelle Gazelle here symbolizes a human dignitary. lies slain on your heights, Israel. How the mighty have fallen!

20“Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.

21“Mountains of Gilboa, may you have neither dew nor rain, may no showers fall on your terraced fields. Or / nor fields that yield grain for offerings For there the shield of the mighty was despised, the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.