11. Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.
12. And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.
13. And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? He answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalee.
14. David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to kill the Lord's anointed?
15. And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.
16. And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's anointed.
17. And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.
18. (Also he commanded that they should teach the children of Juda the use of the bow, as it is written in the book of the just.) And he said: Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead, wounded on thy high places.
19. The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?
20. Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph,
21. Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.