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21 O mountains of Gilboa,
    upon you be neither dew nor rain,
    nor surging from the deeps![a]
Defiled there the warriors’ shields,
    the shield of Saul—no longer anointed with oil!(A)

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  1. 1:21 Surging from the deeps: this conjectural reading of the Hebrew yields a parallelism with dew and rain: the mountains where the warriors have fallen in battle are to be desiccated, deprived of water from above (rain, dew) and below (the primordial deeps).