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JUD-5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that
day, saying,
JUD-5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the
people willingly offered themselves.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-5:5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that
Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
JUD-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.
JUD-5:7 [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in
Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in
Israel.
JUD-5:8 They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was
there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
JUD-5:9 My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that
offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
JUD-5:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in
judgment, and walk by the way.
JUD-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.
JUD-5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song:
arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of
Abinoam.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in
ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his
breaches.
JUD-5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded
their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
JUD-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.
JUD-5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses
fought against Sisera.
JUD-5:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river,
the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
JUD-5:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the
prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
JUD-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.
JUD-5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the
Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
JUD-5:25 He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought
forth butter in a lordly dish.
JUD-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.
JUD-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.
JUD-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?
JUD-5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer
to herself,
JUD-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
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?
JUD-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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