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19 Your splendor, O Israel, has been slain upon your hills.
    How the mighty ones have fallen.

20 Do not report it in Gath,
    do not announce it in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
    or the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

21 O mountains of Gilboa,
    may there be no rain or dew upon you
    or your bountiful fields;
for there the shield of the mighty was defiled!
    The shield of Saul is no longer anointed with oil.

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