8. “He responded, ‘Who are you?’“‘I am an Amalekite,’ I told him.
9. “Then he begged me, ‘Come over here and put me out of my misery, for I am in terrible pain and want to die.’
10. “So I killed him,” the Amalekite told David, “for I knew he couldn’t live. Then I took his crown and his armband, and I have brought them here to you, my lord.”
11. David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news.
12. They mourned and wept and fasted all day for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the lord’s army and the nation of Israel, because they had died by the sword that day.
13. Then David said to the young man who had brought the news, “Where are you from?”And he replied, “I am a foreigner, an Amalekite, who lives in your land.”
14. “Why were you not afraid to kill the lord’s anointed one?” David asked.
15. Then David said to one of his men, “Kill him!” So the man thrust his sword into the Amalekite and killed him.
16. “You have condemned yourself,” David said, “for you yourself confessed that you killed the lord’s anointed one.”
17. Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan,
18. and he commanded that it be taught to the people of Judah. It is known as the Song of the Bow, and it is recorded in The Book of Jashar.
19. Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on the hills!Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!