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David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan

17 Then David (A)chanted with this funeral lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

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33 (A)And the king chanted a lament for Abner and said,

“Should Abner die as a wicked fool dies?
34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters;
As one falls before the [a]unrighteous, you have fallen.”

And all the people continued to weep over him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:34 Lit sons of unrighteousness

25 Then (A)Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them a statute in Israel; behold, they are also written in the lamentations.

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17 Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“Carefully consider and call for the (A)mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the [a](B)skillful women, that they may come!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:17 Lit wise

17 They will take up a (A)lamentation over you and say to you,

(B)How you have perished, O inhabited one,
From the seas, O city that was praised,
Which was (C)strong on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who [a]imposed [b]her terror
On all her inhabitants!

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:17 Lit put
  2. Ezekiel 26:17 Lit their

“Son of man, take up a (A)lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,

‘You liken yourself to a young (B)lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the (C)monster in the seas;
And you (D)burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And [a]fouled their rivers.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 32:2 Lit fouled by stamping