BEAUTY, glory, ornament — and also GAZELLE, and the Bible plays on both. The lament opens 'the TZVI, O Israel, lies slain on your high places' (2 Samuel 1:19) and the versions split: KJV 'the beauty of Israel,' ESV 'your glory, O Israel,' NIV 'a gazelle lies slain on your heights.' ⚠️ The ambiguity may well be deliberate — a lament for something swift and lovely brought down on a hill suits either sense, and verse 23 goes on to call the dead 'swifter than eagles.' In the other direction the word names the promised land itself, 'the GLORY of all lands' (Ezekiel 20:6, 15) and Daniel's 'beautiful land' (11:16, 41). → first discussed at 2 Samuel 1:19