34 When Jephthah arrived home in Mizpah, there came his daughter out to meet him, with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child—he had no son or daughter apart from her. 35 The moment he saw her, he ripped his clothes in agony and cried out, "Oh no, my daughter! You have crushed me completely! You have destroyed me, for I made a solemn promise to the Lord and I can’t go back on it."