¹ A po smrti Aodovoj opet sinovi Izrailjevi činiše što je zlo pred Gospodom.

² I Gospod ih dade u ruke Javinu caru hananskom, koji vladaše u Asoru, a vojsci njegovoj beše vojvoda Sisara, koji življaše u Arosetu neznabožačkom.

³ I sinovi Izrailjevi vapiše ka Gospodu; jer on imaše devet stotina gvozdenih kola, i veoma pritešnjavaše sinove Izrailjeve dvadeset godina.

⁴ U to vreme Devora proročica, žena Lafidotova, suđaše Izrailju.

⁵ I Devora stanovaše pod palmom između Rame i Vetilja u gori Jefremovoj, i dolažahu k njoj sinovi Izrailjevi na sud.

⁶ A ona poslavši dozva Varaka sina Avinejemova iz Kedesa Neftalimovog, i reče mu: Nije li zapovedio Gospod Bog Izrailjev: Idi, skupi narod na gori Tavor, i uzmi sa sobom deset hiljada ljudi između sinova Neftalimovih i sinova Zavulonovih?

⁷ Jer ću dovesti k tebi na potok Kison Sisaru vojvodu Javinovog i kola njegova i ljudstvo njegovo, i predaću ga tebi u ruke.

⁸ A Varak joj reče: Ako ćeš ti ići sa mnom, ići ću; ako li nećeš ići sa mnom, neću ići.

⁹ A ona reče: Ja ću ići s tobom, ali nećeš imati slave na putu kojim ćeš ići; jer će ženi u ruku dati Gospod Sisaru. I ustavši Devora otide s Varakom u Kedes.

¹⁰ I Varak sazvavši sinove Zavulonove i Neftalimove u Kedes, povede sa sobom deset hiljada ljudi; i Devora iđaše s njim.

¹¹ A Ever Kenejin beše se odvojio od Keneja, od sinova Ovava tasta Mojsijevog, i beše razapeo svoj šator kod hrastova zanajimskih, a to je kod Kedesa.

¹² I javiše Sisari da je izašao Varak sin Avinejemov na goru Tavor.

¹³ I Sisara skupi sva kola svoja, devet stotina kola gvozdenih, i sav narod koji beše s njim od Aroseta neznabožačkoga do potoka Kisona.

¹⁴ Tada reče Devora Varaku: Ustani, jer je ovo dan, u koji ti dade Gospod Sisaru u ruke. Ne ide li Gospod pred tobom? I Varak siđe s gore Tavora, i deset hiljada ljudi za njim.

¹⁵ I Gospod smete Sisaru i sva kola njegova i svu vojsku oštrim mačem pred Varakom; i Sisara siđe s kola svojih i pobeže pešice.

¹⁶ A Varak potera kola i vojsku do Aroseta neznabožačkoga; i pade sva vojska Sisarina od oštrog mača, ne osta nijedan.

¹⁷ A Sisara uteče pešice do šatora Jailje žene Evera Kenejina; jer beše mir među Javinom carem asorskim i domom Evera Kenejina.

¹⁸ I iziđe Jailja na susret Sisari, i reče mu: Skloni se, gospodaru, skloni se kod mene; ne boj se. I on se skloni kod nje u šator, i ona ga pokri pokrivačem.

¹⁹ A on joj reče: Daj mi malo vode da se napijem, jer sam žedan. A ona otvori meh mleka i napoji ga, pa ga pokri.

²⁰ A on joj reče: Stoj na vratima od šatora, i ako ko dođe i zapita te i reče: Ima li tu ko? Reci: Nema.

²¹ Tada Jailja žena Everova uze kolac od šatora, i uze malj u ruku, i pristupi k njemu polako, i satera mu kolac kroz slepe oči, te prođe u zemlju, kad spavaše tvrdo umoran, i umre.

²² I gle, Varak teraše Sisaru, i Jailja mu iziđe na susret, i reče mu: Hodi da ti pokažem čoveka kog tražiš. I uđe k njoj, i gle Sisara ležaše mrtav, i kolac mu u slepim očima.

²³ Tako pokori Bog u onaj dan Javina cara hananskog pred sinovima Izrailjevim.

²⁴ I ruka sinova Izrailjevih bivaše sve teža Javinu caru hananskom, dokle ne istrebiše Javina cara hananskog.

¹ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

³ and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

⁴ Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

⁵ and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

⁶ Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.

⁷ It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.

⁸ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

⁹ Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

¹⁰ it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

¹¹ It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

¹² Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.

¹³ For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁴ You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.

¹⁵ I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

¹⁶ Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.

¹⁷ I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

¹⁸ The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,

¹⁹ Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

²⁰ You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

²¹ For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

²² In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.

²³ It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.

²⁵ You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

²⁶ thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.

²⁷ I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].

²⁸ You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

²⁹ while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

³⁰ Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

³¹ I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

³² You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.