2 Samuel 1:19-21

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁹ “Israel, your beauty was ruined on your hills.
    Oh, how those heroes fell!
²⁰ Don’t tell the news in Gath.^[a]
    Don’t announce it in the streets of Ashkelon.^[b]
Those Philistine cities would be happy!
    Those foreigners^[c] would be glad.

²¹ “May no rain or dew fall
    on you, mountains of Gilboa.
May there be no offerings
    coming from your fields.
The shields of the heroes rusted there.
    Saul’s shield was not rubbed with oil.