37 But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”

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37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

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37 Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone for two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains and [a]bewail my virginity, my [b]friends and I.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:37 lament
  2. Judges 11:37 companions

38 “You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.

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38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

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38 So he said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.

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Dibon(A) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places(B) to weep;
    Moab wails(C) over Nebo(D) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved(E)
    and every beard cut off.(F)

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He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

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He has gone up to the [a]temple and Dibon,
To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
(A)On all their heads will be baldness,
And every beard cut off.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:2 Heb. bayith, lit. house