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.
2 Samuel 3:34 - New International Version (Anglicised) Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.’ And all the people wept over him again. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your hands were not bound or your feet put into fetters; as a man falls before wicked men, so you fell. And all the people wept again over him. American Standard Version (1901) Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people wept again over him. Common English Bible Your hands weren’t bound, your feet weren’t chained, but you have fallen like someone falls before the wicked.” Then the troops cried over Abner again. Catholic Public Domain Version Your hands are not bound, and your feet are not weighed down with fetters. But just as men often fall before the sons of iniquity, so you have fallen." And while repeating this, all the people wept over him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people repeating it wept over him. |
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.
The king sang this lament for Abner: ‘Should Abner have died as the lawless die?
Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, ‘May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!’
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
‘This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign Lord.’
As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding corn in the prison.