Daughters of Israel, y’all must weep over Saul, who clothed y’all delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your* clothing.
2 Samuel 1:23 - Y'all Version Bible Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In their lives and in their deaths they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. American Standard Version (1901) Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions. Common English Bible Saul and Jonathan! So well loved, so dearly cherished! In their lives and in their deaths they were never separated. They were faster than eagles, stronger than lions! Catholic Public Domain Version Saul and Jonathan, worthy to be loved, and stately in their life: even in death they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions. |
Daughters of Israel, y’all must weep over Saul, who clothed y’all delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your* clothing.
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn’t turn away for any;
His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.
Look! He will advances like the clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
YHWH will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If y’all hadn’t plowed with my heifer, y’all wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
He said to him, “No! You will not die. Look, my father does nothing either great or small, that he does not disclose to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”