Judges 5:1-21 ▼

1 And Deborah will sing, and Barak, son of Abinoam, in that day, saying,

2 In the leading on of the leaders in Israel, In the willingness of the people, praise ye Jehovah.

3 Hear, ye kings; give ear ye princes; I, to Jehovah, will I sing; I will play to Jehovah, God of Israel.

4 Jehovah, in thy going forth from Seir, In thy ascending from the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Also the clouds dropped water.

5 The mountains flowed from before Jehovah, This Sinai from before Jehovah, the God of Israel.

6 In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days of Jael, they left the ways; They went the by-ways; they will go the winding ways.

7 The rulers ceased in Israel: they ceased Till I, Deborah, arose: I arose a mother in Israel.

8 He will choose new gods; Then war in the gates: If a shield was seen, and a lance, Among forty thousand in Israel.

9 My heart to the leaders of Israel, Those giving voluntarily among the people: Praise ye Jehovah.

10 Ye riding upon white asses, Sitting upon jurisdiction, And going upon the way, speak ye.

11 From the voice of arrows between the watering-troughs, There will they give the justices of Jehovah, The justices of his rule in Israel: Then will the people of Jehovah go down to the gates.

12 Awake, awake! Deborah; Awake, awake! speak a song: Arise, Barak, and lead captive, thy captivity, son of Abinoam.

13 Then the one left shall go down to the chiefs of the people: Jehovah will come down to me among the mighty.

14 The fate of Ephraim uprooted them in Amalek; After thee, Benjamin, among thy tribes; From Machir the lawgivers came down, And from Zebulon they drawing with the rod of the scribe.

15 And the chiefs in Issachar with Deborah; And Issachar, so Barak: In the valley sent he, upon his feet. In the divisions of Reuben, Great decrees of heart.

16 Wherefore didst thou dwell in the midst of the folds, To hear the pipings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben, great searching's of heart.

17 In Gilead beyond Jordan he dwelt; And Dan, wherefore will he sojourn in ships? Asher will dwell by the shore of the seas, And upon his harbors will he dwell.

18 Zebulon a people reproached his soul to death, And Naphtali upon the heights of the field.

19 Kings came: they fought: Then fought the kings of Canaan, Tanach, upon the water of Megiddo: Plunder of silver took they not.

20 From the heavens they fought; The stars from their raised ways fought with Sisera.

21 The torrent Kishon snatched them away The torrent of ancient days, the torrent of Kishon. Thou wilt tread down strength, O my soul.