| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"That the leaders led in Israel, That the people volunteered, Bless the LORD! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers! I-- to the LORD, I will sing, I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"LORD, when You went out from Seir, When You marched from the field of Edom, The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped, Even the clouds dripped water. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"The mountains quaked at the presence of the LORD, This Sinai, at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted, And travelers went by roundabout ways. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"The peasantry ceased, they ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"New gods were chosen; Then war was in the gates. Not a shield or a spear was seen Among forty thousand in Israel. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel, The volunteers among the people; Bless the LORD! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"You who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, And you who travel on the road-- sing! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"At the sound of those who divide flocks among the watering places, There they shall recount the righteous deeds of the LORD, The righteous deeds for His peasantry in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and take away your captives, O son of Abinoam. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Then survivors came down to the nobles; The people of the LORD came down to me as warriors. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down, Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples; From Machir commanders came down, And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of office. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; As was Issachar, so was Barak; Into the valley they rushed at his heels; Among the divisions of Reuben There were great resolves of heart. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the piping for the flocks? Among the divisions of Reuben There were great searchings of heart. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Gilead remained across the Jordan; And why did Dan stay in ships? Asher sat at the seashore, And remained by its landings. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Zebulun was a people who despised their lives even to death, And Naphtali also, on the high places of the field. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"The kings came and fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan At Taanach near the waters of Megiddo; They took no plunder in silver. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"The stars fought from heaven, From their courses they fought against Sisera. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"The torrent of Kishon swept them away, The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Then the horses' hoofs beat From the dashing, the dashing of his valiant steeds. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD, 'Utterly curse its inhabitants; Because they did not come to the help of the LORD, To the help of the LORD against the warriors.' |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Most blessed of women is Jael, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Most blessed is she of women in the tent. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"He asked for water and she gave him milk; In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"She reached out her hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen's hammer. Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head; And she shattered and pierced his temple. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; Between her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell dead. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Out of the window she looked and lamented, The mother of Sisera through the lattice, 'Why does his chariot delay in coming? Why do the hoofbeats of his chariots tarry?' |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Her wise princesses would answer her, Indeed she repeats her words to herself, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30'Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil? A maiden, two maidens for every warrior; To Sisera a spoil of dyed work, A spoil of dyed work embroidered, Dyed work of double embroidery on the neck of the spoiler?' |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might." And the land was undisturbed for forty years. |
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