34 Your hands were not bound;
    your feet were not fettered;
as one falls before the wicked
    you have fallen.”

And all the people wept again over him.

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34     Your hands were not bound,
    your feet were not fettered.(A)
You fell as one falls before the wicked.”

And all the people wept over him again.

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As robbers (A)lie in wait for a man,
    so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to (B)Shechem;
    they commit villainy.

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As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,(A)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder(B) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.(C)

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10 (A)Some sat in darkness and in (B)the shadow of death,
    prisoners in (C)affliction and in irons,
11 for they (D)had rebelled against the words of God,
    and (E)spurned the counsel of the Most High.

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10 Some sat in darkness,(A) in utter darkness,
    prisoners suffering(B) in iron chains,(C)
11 because they rebelled(D) against God’s commands
    and despised(E) the plans(F) of the Most High.

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14 The murderer rises before it is light,
    that he (A)may kill the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.

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14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills(A) the poor and needy,(B)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.(C)

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12 And they mourned and wept (A)and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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12 They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. (A)And he ground at the mill in the prison.

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21 Then the Philistines(A) seized him, gouged out his eyes(B) and took him down to Gaza.(C) Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain(D) in the prison.

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