and God is with the youth, and he groweth, and dwelleth in the wilderness, and is an archer;

and now, take up, I pray thee, thy instruments, thy quiver, and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt for me provision,

And his bow abideth in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, Whence is a shepherd, a son of Israel.

And the battle is hard against Saul, and the archers find him -- men with bow -- and he is pained greatly by the archers;

And the battle is heavy on Saul, and those shooting with the bow find him, and he is wounded by those shooting,

And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.

'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am breaking the bow of Elam, The beginning of their might.

'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am breaking the bow of Elam, The beginning of their might.

For, lo, I am stirring up, And am causing to come up against Babylon, An assembly of great nations from a land of the north, And they have set in array against her, From thence she is captured, Its arrow -- as a skilful hero -- returneth not empty,

Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All ye treading a bow, Shoot at her, have no pity on the arrow, For against Jehovah she hath sinned.

Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let her have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did -- do to her, For unto Jehovah she hath been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel.

Bow and halbert they seize, Cruel are they, and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea soundeth, and on horses they ride, Set in array as a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'