16 Why did you sit among the sheep pensH

listening to the playing of pipes for the flocks?

There was great searching of heart

among the clans of Reuben.

17 Gileadl remained beyond the Jordan.

Dan, why did you linger at the ships?

Asher remained at the seashore

and stayed in his harbors.

18 The people of Zebulun defied death,

Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.

19 Kings came and fought.

Then the kings of Canaan fought

at Taanach by the Waters of Megiddo,

but they did not plunder the silver.

20 The stars fought from the heavens;

the stars fought with Sisera from their paths.

21 The river Kishon swept them away,m

the ancient river, the river Kishon.

March on, my soul, in strength!

22 The horses’ hooves then hammered—

the galloping, galloping of hisI stallions.

23 “Curse Meroz,” says the angel of the Lord,

“Bitterly curse her inhabitants,

for they did not come to help the Lord,

to help the Lord with the warriors.”