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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves-- praise the LORD! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers! I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will praise the LORD, the God of Israel, in song. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"When you, LORD, went out from Seir, when you marched from the land of Edom, the earth shook, the heavens poured, the clouds poured down water. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9My heart is with Israel's princes, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the LORD! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"You who ride on white donkeys, sitting on your saddle blankets, and you who walk along the road, consider |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11the voice of the singers at the watering places. They recite the victories of the LORD, the victories of his villagers in Israel. "Then the people of the LORD went down to the city gates. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, break out in song! Arise, Barak! Take captive your captives, son of Abinoam.' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"The remnant of the nobles came down; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Some came from Ephraim, whose roots were in Amalek; Benjamin was with the people who followed you. From Makir captains came down, from Zebulun those who bear a commander's staff. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The princes of Issachar were with Deborah; yes, Issachar was with Barak, sent under his command into the valley. In the districts of Reuben there was much searching of heart. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Why did you stay among the sheep pens to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the districts of Reuben there was much searching of heart. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan. And Dan, why did he linger by the ships? Asher remained on the coast and stayed in his coves. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The people of Zebulun risked their very lives; so did Naphtali on the terraced fields. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Kings came, they fought, the kings of Canaan fought. At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo, they took no plunder of silver. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The river Kishon swept them away, the age-old river, the river Kishon. March on, my soul; be strong! |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then thundered the horses' hooves-- galloping, galloping go his mighty steeds. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD. 'Curse its people bitterly, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.' |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Her hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman's hammer. She struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27At her feet he sank, he fell; there he lay. At her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell--dead. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Through the window peered Sisera's mother; behind the lattice she cried out, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?' |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29The wisest of her ladies answer her; indeed, she keeps saying to herself, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Are they not finding and dividing the spoils: a woman or two for each man, colorful garments as plunder for Sisera, colorful garments embroidered, highly embroidered garments for my neck-- all this as plunder?' |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength." Then the land had peace forty years. |
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