Judges 5

5Then ^asang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

²Praise ye the Lord for the ^bavenging of Israel,

^cWhen the people willingly offered themselves.

³Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye ^dprinces;

I, even I, will sing unto the Lord;

I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.

⁴Lord, ^eWhen thou wentest out of Seir,

^fWhen thou marchedst out of the field of Edom,

^gThe earth trembled, and the heavens dropped,

The clouds also dropped water.

^5hThe mountains ^†melted from before the Lord,

Even that ⁱSinai from before the Lord God of Israel.

⁶In the days of ^jShamgar the son of Anath,

In the days of ^kJael, ^lthe highways were unoccupied,

And the ^†travellers walked through ^†byways.

⁷The inhabitants of the ^mvillages ceased, they ceased in Israel,

Until that I Deborah arose,

That I arose a mother in Israel.

⁸They ⁿchose new gods;

Then was war in the gates:

^oWas there a shield or spear seen

Among forty thousand in Israel?

⁹My heart is toward the governors of Israel,

That ^poffered themselves willingly among the people.

Bless ye the Lord.

^10||Speak, ye ^qthat ride on white asses,

^rYe that sit in judgment,

And walk by the way.

¹¹They that are delivered from the noise of archers in ^sthe places of drawing water,

There shall they rehearse the ^†righteous acts of the Lord,

Even the ^†righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his ^mvillages in Israel:

Then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.

^12tAwake, awake, Deborah:

Awake, awake, utter a song:

Arise, Barak,

And ^ulead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

¹³Then he made him that remaineth ^xhave dominion over the nobles among the people:

The Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.

¹⁴Out of ^yEphraim was there a root of them against ^zAmalek;

After thee, Benjamin, among thy people;

Out of ^aMachir came down ^bgovernors,

And out of Zebulun they that ^†handle the pen of the writer.

¹⁵And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;

Even Issachar, and also ^cBarak:

He was sent on ^†foot into the valley.

^||For the divisions of Reuben there were great ^†thoughts of heart.

¹⁶Why abodest thou among the ^dsheepfolds,

To hear the ^ebleatings of ^fthe flocks?

^||For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

^17gGilead abode beyond Jordan:

And why did ^hDan remain in ships?

ⁱAsher continued on the sea ^||shore,

And abode in his ^||breaches.

^18jZebulun and Naphtali were a people that ^†jeoparded their lives unto the death

In the high places of the field.

¹⁹The kings came and fought,

Then fought the kings of Canaan

In ^kTaanach by the waters of ^lMegiddo;

^mThey took no gain of money.

²⁰They fought from heaven;

The stars in their ^†courses fought against Sisera.

²¹The ⁿriver of Kishon swept them away,

That ancient river, the river Kishon.

O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

²²Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the ^||pransings,

The pransings of their ^omighty ones.

²³Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord,

Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof;

^pBecause they came not ^qto the help of the Lord,

To the help of the Lord against the mighty.

²⁴Blessed above women shall ^rJael the wife of Heber the Kenite be,

Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

^25sHe asked water, and she gave him milk;

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

^26tShe put her hand to the nail,

And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer;

And ^†with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head,

When she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

^27†At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down:

^†At her feet he bowed, he fell:

Where he bowed, there he fell down ^†dead.

²⁸The mother of Sisera ^ulooked out at a window,

And cried ^wthrough the lattice,

Why is his chariot so ^xlong in coming?

Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

²⁹Her wise ladies answered her,

Yea, she returned ^†answer to herself,

³⁰Have they not sped? have they not ^ydivided the prey;

^†To every man a damsel or two;

To Sisera a prey of divers colours,

A prey of divers colours of needlework,

Of divers colours of needlework on both sides,

Meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

^31zSo let all thine enemies perish, O Lord:

But let them that love him be ^aas the sun ^bwhen he goeth forth in his might.

And ^cthe land had rest forty years.