12. They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan and for the people of the Lord and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
13. David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" And he answered, "I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite."
14. Then David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?"
15. And David called one of the young men and said, "Go, cut him down." So he struck him and he died.
16. David said to him, "Your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the Lord's anointed.'"
17. Then David chanted with this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,
18. and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.
19. "Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How have the mighty fallen!
20. "Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, The daughters of the uncircumcised will exult.
21. "O mountains of Gilboa, Let not dew or rain be on you, nor fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
22. "From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan did not turn back, And the sword of Saul did not return empty.
23. "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their life, And in their death they were not parted; They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
24. "O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.