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¹ Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying,

² For that leaders led in Israel, For that the people willingly offered themselves, Bless Jehovah!

³ Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, [even] I, will sing to Jehovah; I will hymn to Jehovah the God of Israel.

⁴ Jehovah, when thou wentest forth from Seir, When thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.

⁵ The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel.

⁶ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, The roads were unused, and the travellers on highways went by crooked paths.

⁷ The villages ceased in Israel, Ceased 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, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Jehovah!

¹⁰ Ye that ride on white she-asses, ye that sit on carpets, and ye that walk by the way, consider.

¹¹ Because of the voice of those who divide [the spoil] in the midst of the places of drawing water; There they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, His righteous acts toward his villages in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.

¹² Awake, awake, Deborah! awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead captive thy captives, thou son of Abinoam!

¹³ Then come down, thou, the remnant of nobles, [as his] people; Jehovah! come down with me in the midst of the mighty ones.

¹⁴ Out of Ephraim [came] those whose root was in Amalek; After thee was Benjamin among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handled the staff of the ruler.

¹⁵ And the princes in Issachar were with Deborah; And Issachar, like Barak; They were sent into the valley at his feet. In the divisions of Reuben there were great resolves of heart!

¹⁶ Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the bleating of the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben there were great deliberations of heart!

¹⁷ Gilead abode beyond Jordan; And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat on the sea-shore, And abode in his creeks.

¹⁸ Zebulun is a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto death, Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

¹⁹ Kings came,—they fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan; At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; They took no spoil of silver.

²⁰ From heaven was the fight; The stars from their courses fought with Sisera.

²¹ The torrent of Kishon swept them away, That ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. My soul, thou hast trodden down strength!

²² Then did the horse-hoofs clatter with the coursings, The coursings of their steeds.

²³ Curse Meroz, saith the Angel of Jehovah; Curse, curse the inhabitants thereof; For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty.

²⁴ Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, Blessed above women in the tent!

²⁵ He asked water, she gave milk; In the nobles' bowl she brought forth cream.

²⁶ She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And she smote Sisera, she struck through his head, Shattered and pierced through his temples.

²⁷ Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: Between her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell, overcome.

²⁸ Them other of Sisera looketh out at the window, And crieth through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the trampings of his chariots?

²⁹ The wise amongst her ladies answer [her], Yea, she returneth answer to herself,

³⁰ Have they not found, divided the booty, A damsel, two damsels, to each? A booty of dyed stuffs for Sisera, A booty of dyed stuffs of embroidery, Dyed stuff of double embroidery for the neck of a spoiler?

³¹ So let all thine enemies perish, Jehovah! But let them that love him be as the rising of the sun in its might. And the land had rest forty years.