Judges 5:12

Christian Standard Bible ®

“Awake! Awake, Deborah!Awake! Awake, sing a song!Arise, Barak,and take your prisoners,son of Abinoam!”

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Awake, awake, Devorah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Avino`am.

King James Version
Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

Lexham English Bible
"Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Take captive your captives, O son of Abinoam.

English Standard Version
"Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, break out in a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

New Century Version
"Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Go capture your enemies, son of Abinoam!

New English Translation
Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Capture your prisoners of war, son of Abinoam!

Amplified Bible
"Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.

New American Standard Bible
"Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, son of Abinoam.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Vp Deborah, vp, arise, and sing a song: arise Barak, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam.

Legacy Standard Bible
These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Contemporary English Version
and said, "Deborah, let's go! Let's sing as we march. Barak, capture our enemies."

Complete Jewish Bible
"Awake, awake, D'vorah! Awake, awake, break into song! Arise, Barak! Lead away your captives, son of Avino‘am!

Darby Translation
Awake, awake, Deborah! awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead captive thy captives, thou son of Abinoam!

Easy-to-Read Version
"Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing the song! Get up, Barak! Go capture your enemies, son of Abinoam!

George Lamsa Translation
Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, utter a song; arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

Good News Translation
Lead on, Deborah, lead on! Lead on! Sing a song! Lead on! Forward, Barak son of Abinoam, lead your captives away!

Literal Translation
Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Rise, Barak, and lead your captives captive, son of Abinoam.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vp Debbora vp, get the vp, get the vp, & rehearse a songe. Arise Barak, & catch him yt catched the, thou sonne of Abinoam.

American Standard Version
Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away thy captives, thou son of Abinoam.

Bible in Basic English
Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Up Debora vp, get thee vp, and sing a song: Arise Barac, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song; arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

King James Version (1611)
Awake, awake Deborah: awake, awake, vtter a song: arise Barak, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Awake, awake, Debbora; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barac, and lead thy captivity captive, son of Abineem.

English Revised Version
Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

Berean Standard Bible
'Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Rise, rise thou, Delbora, rise thou, and speke a song; rise thou, Barach, and thou, sone of Abynoen, take thi prisoneris.

Young's Literal Translation
Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song; Rise, Barak, and take captive thy captivity, Son of Abinoam.

Update Bible Version
Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and capture your captives, you son of Abinoam.

Webster's Bible Translation
Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

World English Bible
Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.

New King James Version
"Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead your captives away, O son of Abinoam!

New Living Translation
"Wake up, Deborah, wake up! Wake up, wake up, and sing a song! Arise, Barak! Lead your captives away, son of Abinoam!

New Life Bible
"Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Lead away the people you took in war, O son of Abinoam.

New Revised Standard
"Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Awake! awake! Deborah, Awake! awake! utter words of song, - Arise! Barak, and bind fast thy captives, O son of Abinoam!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, arise, O Debbora, arise, arise, and utter a canticle. Arise, Barac, and take hold of thy captives, O son of Abinoem.

Revised Standard Version
"Awake, awake, Deb'orah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abin'o-am.

THE MESSAGE
Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! On your feet, Barak! Take your prisoners, son of Abinoam!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and take away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

Contextual Overview

¹²“Awake! Awake, Deborah!Awake! Awake, sing a song!Arise, Barak,and take your prisoners,son of Abinoam!”¹³Then the survivors came down to the nobles;the Lord’s people came down to me with the warriors. ¹⁴Those with their roots in Amalek came from Ephraim;Benjamin came with your people after you.The leaders came down from Machir,and those who carry a marshal’s staff came from Zebulun. ¹⁵The princes of Issachar were with Deborah;Issachar was with Barak;they were under his leadership in the valley.There was great searching of heartamong the clans of Reuben. ¹⁶Why did you sit among the sheep penslistening to the playing of pipes for the flocks?There was great searching of heartamong the clans of Reuben. ¹⁷Gilead remained beyond the Jordan.Dan, why did you linger at the ships?Asher remained at the seashoreand stayed in his harbors. ¹⁸The people of Zebulun defied death,Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield. ¹⁹Kings came and fought.Then the kings of Canaan foughtat Taanach by the Waters of Megiddo,but they did not plunder the silver. ²⁰The stars fought from the heavens;the stars fought with Sisera from their paths. ²¹The river Kishon swept them away,the ancient river, the river Kishon.March on, my soul, in strength!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deborah: Psalms 57:8, Psalms 103:1, Psalms 103:2, Psalms 108:2, Isaiah 51:9, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 52:2, Isaiah 60:1, Jeremiah 31:26, 1 Corinthians 15:34, Ephesians 5:14

lead: Psalms 68:18, Isaiah 14:2, Isaiah 33:1, Isaiah 49:24-26, Ephesians 4:8, 2 Timothy 2:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 35:21 - General

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
son of Methuselah,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Awake, awake, Deborah, awake, awake, utter a song, c] Either perceiving some languor and remissness in her spirits, while she was delivering this song, and therefore arouses herself to attend to this service with more ardour and zeal or rather finding herself more impressed with a sense of the great and good things the Lord had done for Israel, calls upon her soul to exert all its powers in celebrating the praises of the Lord, and therefore repeats the word awake so often as she does:

arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam; for though the whole army of Sisera was destroyed, that not a man was left, Judges 4:16 yet as Barak pursued to Harosheth of the Gentiles, many there and in other places which fell into his hands, that belonged to Jabin, might be taken captive by him; and though the Canaanites were to be slain, yet they might first be led captive in triumph; and besides, there might be some of other nations that were taken by him in this war; see Psalms 68:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deborah incites Barak to carry off as his prey the captive Canaanites and their sheep and cattle (their “captivity”).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 5:12. Lead thy captivity captive — Make those captives who have formerly captivated us.