2 Samuel 1:19-21

Good News Translation

¹⁹ “On the hills of Israel our leaders are dead!
    The bravest of our soldiers have fallen!
²⁰ Do not announce it in Gath
    or in the streets of Ashkelon.
Do not make the women of Philistia glad;
    do not let the daughters of pagans rejoice.

²¹ “May no rain or dew fall on Gilboa's hills;
    may its fields be always barren!
For the shields of the brave lie there in disgrace;
    the shield of Saul is no longer polished with oil.