^42 (A)Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you. ⁴³ For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the Lord. And the Lord will not be with you.”

¹² Therefore the ^(A)sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their ^[a]backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst.

^14 (A)Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and ^(B)an evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him.