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| [1]After the death of Saul, when Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and had ben two daies in Ziklag |
[1]Factum est autem, postquam mortuus est Saul, ut David reverteretur a cæde Amalec, et maneret in Siceleg duos dies. |
| [2]Beholde, there came a man the thirde day out of the hoast from Saul, with his clothes rent, & earth vpon his head: And when he came to Dauid, he fell to the earth, and did obeysaunce |
[2]In die autem tertia apparuit homo veniens de castris Saul veste conscissa, et pulvere conspersus caput: et ut venit ad David, cecidit super faciem suam, et adoravit. |
| [3]Dauid sayde vnto him: whence comest thou? He sayde vnto him: Out of the hoast of Israel I am escaped |
[3]Dixitque ad eum David: Unde venis? Qui ait ad eum: De castris Israël fugi. |
| [4]And Dauid sayde vnto him: And what is done I pray thee? tell me. He sayde: The people is fled from the battell, and many of the people are ouerthrowen and dead, and Saul and Ionathan his sonne are dead also |
[4]Et dixit ad eum David: Quod est verbum quod factum est? indica mihi. Qui ait: Fugit populus ex prælio, et multi corruentes e populo mortui sunt: sed et Saul et Jonathas filius ejus interierunt. |
| [5]And Dauid sayd vnto the young man that tolde it him: Howe knowest thou that Saul and Ionathan his sonne be dead |
[5]Dixitque David ad adolescentem, qui nuntiabat ei: Unde scis quia mortuus est Saul, et Jonathas filius ejus? |
| [6]The young man that tolde him, aunswered: As I came vnaduisedly to mount Gilboa, beholde Saul leaned vpon his speare: and lo, the charettes and horsemen folowed hard after him |
[6]Et ait adolescens, qui nuntiabat ei: Casu veni in montem Gelboë, et Saul incumbebat super hastam suam: porro currus et equites appropinquabant ei, |
| [7]And when he loked backe, he sawe me, and called me. And I aunswered: here am I |
[7]et conversus post tergum suum, vidensque me vocavit. Cui cum respondissem: Adsum: |
| [8]And he sayde vnto me: Who art thou? I aunswered him: I am an Amalekite |
[8]dixit mihi: Quisnam es tu? Et aio ad eum: Amalecites ego sum. |
| [9]He sayde vnto me agayne: I pray thee come vpon me, and slea me: For anguyshe is come vpon me, because my life is yet whole in me |
[9]Et locutus est mihi: Sta super me, et interfice me: quoniam tenent me angustiæ, et adhuc tota anima mea in me est. |
| [10]And so I stoode vpon him, and slue him, and because I was sure that he coulde not liue after that he had fallen, I toke the crowne that was vpon his head, and the braselet that was on his arme, and haue brought them hyther vnto my lorde |
[10]Stansque super eum, occidi illum: sciebam enim quod vivere non poterat post ruinam: et tuli diadema quod erat in capite ejus, et armillam de brachio illius, et attuli ad te dominum meum huc. |
| [11]Then Dauid toke holde on his clothes, and rent them, and so did all the men that were with him |
[11]Apprehendens autem David vestimenta sua scidit, omnesque viri, qui erant cum eo, |
| [12]And they mourned, and wept, and fasted vntil euen for Saul and Ionathan his sonne, & for the people of the Lorde, and for the house of Israel, because they were ouerthrowen with the sworde |
[12]et planxerunt, et fleverunt, et jejunaverunt usque ad vesperam super Saul, et super Jonathan filium ejus, et super populum Domini, et super domum Israël, eo quod corruissent gladio. |
| [13]And Dauid sayd vnto the young man that brought him these tidings: Whence art thou? He aunswered: I am the sonne of an aliaunt, an Amakelite |
[13]Dixitque David ad juvenem qui nuntiaverat ei: Unde es tu? Qui respondit: Filius hominis advenæ Amalecitæ ego sum. |
| [14]And Dauid sayde vnto him: Howe is it that thou wast not afrayde to lay thyne hande on the lordes annoynted, to destroy him |
[14]Et ait ad eum David: Quare non timuisti mittere manum tuam ut occideres christum Domini? |
| [15]And Dauid called one of his young me, and sayd: Go to, and fall vpon him. And he smote him, that he died |
[15]Vocansque David unum de pueris suis, ait: Accedens irrue in eum. Qui percussit illum, et mortuus est. |
| [16]Then said Dauid vnto him, Thy blood be vpon thyne owne head: For thyne owne mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I haue slayne the lordes annoynted |
[16]Et ait ad eum David: Sanguis tuus super caput tuum: os enim tuum locutum est adversum te, dicens: Ego interfeci christum Domini. |
| [17]And Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul and ouer Ionathan his sonne |
[17]Planxit autem David planctum hujuscemodi super Saul, et super Jonathan filium ejus, |
| [18](Also he bad them teache the children of Iuda the vse of the bowe: And beholde, it is written in the booke of the righteous: |
[18](et præcepit ut docerent filios Juda arcum, sicut scriptum est in libro justorum), et ait: Considera Israël, pro his qui mortui sunt, super excelsa tua vulnerati, |
| [19]O noble Israel, he is slaine vpon thy hie places: howe are the mightie ouerthrowen |
[19]inclyti, Israël, super montes tuos interfecti sunt: quomodo ceciderunt fortes? |
| [20]Tell it not in Gath, nor publishe it in the streates of Askalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines reioyce, and lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph |
[20]Nolite annuntiare in Geth, neque annuntietis in compitis Ascalonis: ne forte lætentur filiæ Philisthiim, ne exultent filiæ incircumcisorum. |
| [21]Ye mountaynes of Gilboa, vpon you be neither deawe nor raine, nor fieldes of offeringes: For there the shield of the mightie is cast downe, the shielde of Saul, as though he had not ben annoynted with oyle |
[21]Montes Gelboë, nec ros, nec pluvia veniant super vos, neque sint agri primitiarum: quia ibi abjectus est clypeus fortium, clypeus Saul, quasi non esset unctus oleo. |
| [22]The bowe of Ionathan neuer turned backe, neither did the sword of Saul returne emptie fro the blood of the slayne, and from the fat of the mightie |
[22]A sanguine interfectorum, ab adipe fortium, sagitta Jonathæ numquam rediit retrorsum, et gladius Saul non est reversus inanis. |
| [23]Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasaunt in their lyues, and in their deathes they were not deuided: They were swyfter then Egles, and stronger then Lions |
[23]Saul et Jonathas amabiles, et decori in vita sua, in morte quoque non sunt divisi: aquilis velociores, leonibus fortiores. |
| [24]Ye daughters of Israel weepe ouer Saul, which clothed you in scarlet with pleasures, and hanged ornamentes of golde vpon your apparell |
[24]Filiæ Israël super Saul flete, qui vestiebat vos coccino in deliciis, qui præbebat ornamenta aurea cultui vestro. |
| [25]Howe were the mightie slayne in the middest of the battel? O Ionathan thou wast slayne in thyne hye places |
[25]Quomodo ceciderunt fortes in prælio? Jonathas in excelsis tuis occisus est? |
| [26]Wo is me for thee my brother Ionathan, very kinde hast thou ben vnto me: Thy loue to me was wonderful, passing the loue of women |
[26]Doleo super te frater mi Jonatha decore nimis, et amabilis super amorem mulierum. Sicut mater unicum amat filium suum, ita ego te diligebam. |
| [27]O how are the mightie ouerthrowen, and the weapons of warre destroyed |
[27]Quomodo ceciderunt robusti, et perierunt arma bellica? |