2 Samuel 1

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	VULGATA
1 After the death of Saul, David returned from his defeat of the Amalekites and spent two days in Ziklag.	1 Factum est autem, postquam mortuus est Saul, ut David reverteretur a cæde Amalec, et maneret in Siceleg duos dies.
2 On the third day a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. Going to David, he fell to the ground in homage.	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 David asked him, "Where do you come from?" He replied, "I have escaped from the Israelite camp."	3 Dixitque ad eum David : Unde venis ? Qui ait ad eum : De castris Israël fugi.
4 "Tell me what happened," David bade him. He answered that the soldiers had fled the battle and that many of them had fallen and were dead, among them Saul and his son Jonathan.	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 Then David said to the youth who was reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"	5 Dixitque David ad adolescentem qui nuntiabat ei : Unde scis quia mortuus est Saul, et Jonathas filius ejus ?
6 The youthful informant replied: "It was by chance that I found myself on Mount Gilboa and saw Saul leaning on his spear, with chariots and horsemen closing in on 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 He turned around and, seeing me, called me to him. When I said, 'Here I am,'	7 et conversus post tergum suum, vidensque me, vocavit. Cui cum respondissem : Adsum :
8 he asked me, 'Who are you?' and I replied, 'An Amalekite.'	8 dixit mihi : Quisnam es tu ? Et aio ad eum : Amalecites ego sum.
9 Then he said to me, 'Stand up to me, please, and finish me off, for I am in great suffering, yet fully alive.'	9 Et locutus est mihi : Sta super me, et interfice me : quoniam tenent me angustiæ, et adhuc tota anima mea in me est.
10 So I stood up to him and dispatched him, for I knew that he could not survive his wound. I removed the crown from his head and the armlet from his arm and brought them here to my lord."	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 David seized his garments and rent them, and all the men who were with him did likewise.	11 Apprehendens autem David, vestimenta sua scidit, omnesque viri qui erant cum eo,
12 They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the soldiers of the LORD of the clans of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.	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 Then David said to the young man who had brought him the information, "Where are you from?" He replied, "I am the son of an Amalekite immigrant."	13 Dixitque David ad juvenem qui nuntiaverat ei : Unde es tu ? Qui respondit : Filius hominis advenæ Amalecitæ ego sum.
14 David said to him, "How is it that you were not afraid to put forth your hand to desecrate the LORD'S anointed?"	14 Et ait ad eum David : Quare non timuisti mittere manum tuam ut occideres christum Domini ?
15 David then called one of the attendants and said to him, "Come, strike him down"; and the youth struck him a mortal blow.	15 Vocansque David unum de pueris suis, ait : Accedens irrue in eum. Qui percussit illum, et mortuus est.
16 Meanwhile David said to him, "You are responsible for your own death, for you testified against yourself when you said, 'I dispatched the LORD'S anointed.'"	16 Et ait ad eum David : Sanguis tuus super caput tuum : os enim tuum locutum est adversum te, dicens : Ego interfeci christum Domini.
17 Then David chanted this elegy for Saul and his son Jonathan,	17 Planxit autem David planctum hujuscemodi super Saul, et super Jonathan filium ejus
18 which is recorded in the Book of Jashar to be taught to the Judahites. He sang:	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 "Alas! the glory of Israel, Saul, slain upon your heights; how can the warriors have fallen!	19 Inclyti Israël super montes tuos interfecti sunt : quomodo ceciderunt fortes ?
20 "Tell it not in Gath, herald it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Lest the Philistine maidens rejoice, lest the daughters of the strangers exult!	20 Nolite annuntiare in Geth, neque annuntietis in compitis Ascalonis : ne forte lætentur filiæ Philisthiim ; ne exultent filiæ incircumcisorum.
21 Mountains of Gilboa, may there be neither dew nor rain upon you, nor upsurgings of the deeps! Upon you lie begrimed the warriors' shields, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.	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 "From the blood of the slain, from the bodies of the valiant, The bow of Jonathan did not turn back, or the sword of Saul return unstained.	22 A sanguine interfectorum, ab adipe fortium, sagitta Jonathæ numquam rediit retrorsum, et gladius Saul non est reversus inanis.
23 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and cherished, separated neither in life nor in death, swifter than eagles, stronger than lions!	23 Saul et Jonathas amabiles, et decori in vita sua, in morte quoque non sunt divisi : aquilis velociores, leonibus fortiores.
24 Women of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and in finery, who decked your attire with ornaments of gold.	24 Filiæ Israël, super Saul flete, qui vestiebat vos coccino in deliciis, qui præbebat ornamenta aurea cultui vestro.
25 "How can the warriors have fallen-- in the thick of the battle, slain upon your heights!	25 Quomodo ceciderunt fortes in prælio ? Jonathas in excelsis tuis occisus est ?
26 "I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother! most dear have you been to me; More precious have I held love for you than love for 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 "How can the warriors have fallen, the weapons of war have perished!"	27 Quomodo ceciderunt robusti, et perierunt arma bellica ?