2 Samuel 1:17

New Life Version

Then David sang a song of sorrow for Saul and his son Jonathan.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David sang the following lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Hebrew Names Version
David lamented with this lamentation over Sha'ul and over Yonatan his son

King James Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Lexham English Bible
Then David sang this funeral song over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

English Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

New Century Version
David sang a funeral song about Saul and his son Jonathan,

New English Translation
Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

Amplified Bible
Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan,

New American Standard Bible
Then David sang this song of mourning over Saul and his son Jonathan,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then David chanted with this funeral lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Contemporary English Version
David sang a song in memory of Saul and Jonathan,

Complete Jewish Bible
Then David pronounced this lament over Sha'ul and over Y'honatan his son,

Darby Translation
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son;

Easy-to-Read Version
David sang a sad song about Saul and his son Jonathan.

George Lamsa Translation
And David lamented with this song of mourning over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Good News Translation
David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Literal Translation
And David sang this death-dirge over Saul, and over his son Jonathan;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Dauid mourned this lamentacion ouer Saul and Ionathas his sonne,

American Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Bible in Basic English
Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul and ouer Ionathan his sonne,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

King James Version (1611)
And Dauid lamented with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

English Revised Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Berean Standard Bible
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsooth Dauid biweilide sych a weilyng on Saul, and on Jonathas, his sone;

Young's Literal Translation
And David lamenteth with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son;

Update Bible Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

Webster's Bible Translation
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son:

World English Bible
David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

New King James Version
Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

New Living Translation
Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan,

New Revised Standard
David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then chanted David this dirge, - over Saul and over Jonathan his son;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.

Revised Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

THE MESSAGE
Then David sang this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan, and gave orders that everyone in Judah learn it by heart. Yes, it's even inscribed in The Book of Jashar.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David chanted with this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Then David sang a song of sorrow for Saul and his son Jonathan. ¹⁸ He told them to teach the song of the bow to the people of Judah. See, it is written in the book of Jashar. ¹⁹ "O Israel, your beauty is destroyed on your high places! How have the powerful fallen! ²⁰ Do not tell about it in Gath. Do not tell about it in the streets of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines might be filled with joy. The daughters of those who have not gone through our religious act might be filled with joy. ²¹ O mountains of Gilboa, do not let the water that is on the grass in the early morning or rain be on you. Let not grass be grown on your fields. For there the covering of the powerful was made dirty, the covering of Saul, as if he had not been set apart with oil. ²² The bow of Jonathan did not turn away. The sword of Saul did not return empty. They did not turn from the blood of the dead and the fat of the powerful. ²³ Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing in their life. And they were not divided in their death. They were faster than eagles. They were stronger than lions. ²⁴ O daughters of Israel, cry for Saul. He dressed you in fine red clothing. He put on your clothing objects of gold. ²⁵ How have the powerful fallen in the center of the battle! Jonathan has been killed on your high places. ²⁶ I am troubled because of you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasing to me. Your love to me was greater than the love of women.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lamented: 2 Samuel 1:19, Genesis 50:11, 2 Chronicles 35:25, Jeremiah 9:17-21

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:2 - mourn Genesis 50:10 - seven days Psalms 35:14 - I behaved Psalms 59:10 - let Psalms 141:6 - When their judges Ezekiel 32:16 - General Micah 2:4 - and lament

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I will set My rain-bow in the cloud, and it will be something special to see because of an agreement between Me and the earth.

Job 38:12
"Have you ever in your life told the morning when to come, and caused the first light of day to know its place,

Psalms 8:1
O Lord, our Lord, how great is Your name in all the earth. You have set Your shining-greatness above the heavens.

Psalms 8:3
When I look up and think about Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in their place,

Acts 13:47
The Lord gave us a work to do. He said, ‘You are to be a light to the people who are not Jews. You are to preach so that men over all the earth can be saved from the punishment of their sins.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son. Composed the following elegy on account of their death, and sung it in a tune agreeable to it, he and the men that were with him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words lamented and lamentation must be understood in the technical sense of a funeral dirge or mournful elegy. (See similar dirges in 2 Samuel 3:33-34; and 2 Chronicles 35:25.) This and the brief stanza on the death of Abner are the only specimens preserved to us of David’s secular poetry.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 1:17. David lamented — See this lamentation, and the notes on it at the end of this chapter. 2 Samuel 1:21.