2 Samuel 1
1 After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.
Factum est autem, postquam mortuus est Saul, ut David reverteretur a cæde Amalec, et maneret in Siceleg duos dies.
2 On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.
In die autem tertia apparuit homo veniens de castris Saul veste conscissa, et pulvere conspersus caput: et ut venit ad David, cecidit super faciem suam, et adoravit.
3 “Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.
Dixitque ad eum David: Unde venis? Qui ait ad eum: De castris Israël fugi.
4 “What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
Et dixit ad eum David: Quod est verbum quod factum est? indica mihi. Qui ait: Fugit populus ex prælio, et multi corruentes e populo mortui sunt: sed et Saul et Jonathas filius ejus interierunt.
5 Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
Dixitque David ad adolescentem qui nuntiabat ei: Unde scis quia mortuus est Saul, et Jonathas filius ejus?
6 “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
Et ait adolescens qui nuntiabat ei: Casu veni in montem Gelboë, et Saul incumbebat super hastam suam: porro currus et equites appropinquabant ei,
7 When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ‘Here I am!’
et conversus post tergum suum, vidensque me, vocavit. Cui cum respondissem: Adsum:
8 ‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
dixit mihi: Quisnam es tu? Et aio ad eum: Amalecites ego sum.
9 Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
Et locutus est mihi: Sta super me, et interfice me: quoniam tenent me angustiæ, et adhuc tota anima mea in me est.
10 So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”
Stansque super eum, occidi illum: sciebam enim quod vivere non poterat post ruinam: et tuli diadema quod erat in capite ejus, et armillam de brachio illius, et attuli ad te dominum meum huc.
11 Then David took hold of his own clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.
Apprehendens autem David, vestimenta sua scidit, omnesque viri qui erant cum eo,
12 They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
et planxerunt, et fleverunt, et jejunaverunt usque ad vesperam super Saul, et super Jonathan filium ejus, et super populum Domini, et super domum Israël, eo quod corruissent gladio.
13 And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”
Dixitque David ad juvenem qui nuntiaverat ei: Unde es tu? Qui respondit: Filius hominis advenæ Amalecitæ ego sum.
14 So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
Et ait ad eum David: Quare non timuisti mittere manum tuam ut occideres christum Domini?
15 Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.
Vocansque David unum de pueris suis, ait: Accedens irrue in eum. Qui percussit illum, et mortuus est.
16 For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
Et ait ad eum David: Sanguis tuus super caput tuum: os enim tuum locutum est adversum te, dicens: Ego interfeci christum Domini.
17 Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
Planxit autem David planctum hujuscemodi super Saul, et super Jonathan filium ejus
18 and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:
(et præcepit ut docerent filios Juda arcum, sicut scriptum est in libro justorum), et ait: [Considera, Israël, pro his qui mortui sunt, super excelsa tua vulnerati.
19 “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
Inclyti Israël super montes tuos interfecti sunt: quomodo ceciderunt fortes?
20 Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
Nolite annuntiare in Geth, neque annuntietis in compitis Ascalonis: ne forte lætentur filiæ Philisthiim; ne exultent filiæ incircumcisorum.]
21 O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
[Montes Gelboë, nec ros, nec pluvia veniant super vos, neque sint agri primitiarum: quia ibi abjectus est clypeus fortium: clypeus Saul, quasi non esset unctus oleo.]
22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not retreat, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.
[A sanguine interfectorum, ab adipe fortium, sagitta Jonathæ numquam rediit retrorsum, et gladius Saul non est reversus inanis.
23 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Saul et Jonathas amabiles, et decori in vita sua, in morte quoque non sunt divisi: aquilis velociores, leonibus fortiores.]
24 O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.
[Filiæ Israël, super Saul flete, qui vestiebat vos coccino in deliciis, qui præbebat ornamenta aurea cultui vestro.]
25 How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
[Quomodo ceciderunt fortes in prælio? Jonathas in excelsis tuis occisus est?
26 I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
Doleo super te, frater mi Jonatha, decore nimis, et amabilis super amorem mulierum. Sicut mater unicum amat filium suum, ita ego te diligebam.
27 How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”
Quomodo ceciderunt robusti, et perierunt arma bellica?]
