Judges 5

¹ Then sang Deborah and Barak the sonson of Abinoam on that dayday, saying,

² For that the leaders took the lead in IsraelIsrael, For that the people offered themselves willingly, BlessBless ye JehovahJehovah.

³ HearHear, O ye kingskings; give ear, O ye princes; I, [even] I, will singsing unto JehovahJehovah; I will singsing praise to JehovahJehovah, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael.

⁴ JehovahJehovah, when thou wentest forth out of SeirSeir, When thou marchedst out of the fieldfield of EdomEdom, The earthearth trembledtrembled, the heavensheavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped waterwater.

⁵ The mountainsmountains quaked at the presence of JehovahJehovah, Even yon SinaiSinai at the presence of JehovahJehovah, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael.

⁶ In the daysdays of Shamgar the sonson of Anath, In the daysdays of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walkedwalked through byways.

⁷ The rulers ceased in IsraelIsrael, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mothermother in IsraelIsrael.

⁸ They chose new godsgods; Then was warwar in the gatesgates: Was there a shieldshield or spear seenseen Among fortyforty thousandthousand in IsraelIsrael?

⁹ My heartheart is toward the governors of IsraelIsrael, That offered themselves willingly among the people: BlessBless ye JehovahJehovah.

¹⁰ TellTell [of it], ye that rideride on whitewhite asses, Ye that sitsit on rich carpets, And ye that walkwalk by the wayway.

¹¹ Far from the noisenoise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteousrighteous acts of JehovahJehovah, [Even] the righteousrighteous acts of his rule in IsraelIsrael. Then the people of JehovahJehovah went downdown to the gatesgates.

¹² AwakeAwake, AwakeAwake, Deborah; AwakeAwake, AwakeAwake, utter a songsong: AriseArise, Barak, and lead away thy captivescaptives, thou sonson of Abinoam.

¹³ Then came down a remnant of the nobles [and] the people; JehovahJehovah came down for me against the mightymighty.

¹⁴ Out of EphraimEphraim [came downdown] they whose rootroot is in Amalek; AfterAfter thee, BenjaminBenjamin, among thy peoples; Out of MachirMachir came downdown governors, And out of ZebulunZebulun they that handle the marshal's staff.

¹⁵ And the princesprinces of IssacharIssachar were with Deborah; As was IssacharIssachar, so was Barak; Into the valleyvalley they rushed forth at his feetfeet. By the watercourses of ReubenReuben There were greatgreat resolves of heartheart.

¹⁶ Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, To hearhear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of ReubenReuben There were greatgreat searchings of heartheart.

¹⁷ GileadGilead abode beyond the JordanJordan: And DanDan, why did he remain in shipsships? Asher satsat still at the havenhaven of the seasea, And abode by his creeks.

¹⁸ ZebulunZebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, And NaphtaliNaphtali, upon the highhigh places of the fieldfield.

¹⁹ The kingskings camecame and fought; Then fought the kingskings of CanaanCanaan. In Taanach by the waters of MegiddoMegiddo: They took no gaingain of moneymoney.

²⁰ From heavenheaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against SiseraSisera.

²¹ The riverriver Kishon swept them away, That ancient riverriver, the riverriver Kishon. O my soulsoul, march on with strengthstrength.

²² Then did the horsehoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

²³ Curse ye Meroz, saidsaid the angelangel of JehovahJehovah. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitantsthe inhabitants thereof, Because they camecame not to the help of JehovahJehovah, To the help of JehovahJehovah against the mightymighty.

²⁴ BlessedBlessed above womenwomen shall Jael be, The wifewife of Heber the KeniteKenite; BlessedBlessed shall she be above womenwomen in the tenttent.

²⁵ He asked waterwater, [and] she gave him milkmilk; She brought him butterbutter in a lordly dish.

²⁶ She putput her handhand to the tent-pinpin, And her right handright hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smotesmote SiseraSisera, she smotesmote through his headhead; Yea, she pierced and struckstruck through his temples.

²⁷ At her feetfeet he bowed, he fellfell, he lay; At her feetfeet he bowed, he fellfell; Where he bowed, there he fellfell down dead.

²⁸ Through the windowwindow she looked forth, and cried, The mothermother of SiseraSisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariotchariot so longlong in comingcoming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

²⁹ Her wisewise ladies answeredanswered her, Yea, she returnedreturned answeranswer to herself,

³⁰ Have they not foundfound, have they not divided the spoilspoil? A damsel, two damsels to every man; To SiseraSisera a spoilspoil of dyed garmentsgarments, A spoilspoil of dyed garmentsgarments embroidered, Of dyed garmentsgarments embroidered on both sidessides, on the necksnecks of the spoilspoil?

³¹ So let all thine enemiesenemies perish, O JehovahJehovah: But let them that lovelove him be as the sunsun when he goeth forth in his mightmight. And the landland had rest fortyforty years.