2 Samuel 1:26-27

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁶    I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
very pleasant have you been to me;
    your love to me was wonderful,
    passing the love of women.^[a]

²⁷“How are the mighty fallen,
and the weapons of war perished!”

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Footnotes

1.26 Vulgate adds, “As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee.”

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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