David’s Song of Mourning for Saul and Jonathan

17 Then David (A)sang this song of mourning over Saul and his son Jonathan,

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33 And (A)the king sang a song of mourning for Abner and said,

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

And all the people wept over him again.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:34 Lit sons of wickedness

25 Then (A)Jeremiah chanted a song of mourning for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their songs of mourning to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.

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17 This is what the Lord of armies says:

“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 I.e., professional mourners

17 And they will take up a (A)song of mourning over you and say to you,

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

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:17 Lit their

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

‘You [a]compared 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 [b]fouled their rivers.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 32:2 Or were like
  2. Ezekiel 32:2 Lit fouled by stamping

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