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The
Song of Deborah
5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam
on that day, saying,
5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the
people willingly offered themselves.
5:3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I,
will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God
of Israel.
5:4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou
marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and
the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5:5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that
Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of
Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers
walked through byways.
5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in
Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in
Israel.
5:8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was
there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that
offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the
LORD.
5:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in
judgment, and walk by the way.
5:11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in
the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the
righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward
the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the
people of the LORD go down to the gates.
5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song:
arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of
Abinoam.
5:13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the
nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over
the mighty.
5:14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek;
after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came
down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen
of the writer.
5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even
Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the
valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great
thoughts of heart.
5:16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the
bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there
were great searchings of heart.
5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in
ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his
breaches.
5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded
their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of
Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no
gain of money.
5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses
fought against Sisera.
5:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient
river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down
strength.
5:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the
pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye
bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to
the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the
mighty.
5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the
Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
5:25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought
forth butter in a lordly dish.
5:26 She 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.
5:27 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.
5:28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried
through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming?
why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer
to herself,
5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to
every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors,
a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of
needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that
take the spoil?
5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them
that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his
might. And the land had rest forty years. |
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