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