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

² For the leaders took the lead in Israel, For the people offered themselves willingly, Bless you Yahweh.

³ Hear, O you kings; give ear, O you princes; I, [even] I, will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁴ Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, When you marched out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped water.

⁵ The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, this Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁶ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travelers walked through byways.

⁷ The villagers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until I Deborah arose, I arose a mother in Israel.

⁸ They chose new gods; Then there 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, That offered themselves willingly among the people: Bless you Yahweh.

¹⁰ Tell [of it], you that ride on white donkeys, You that sit on rich carpets, And you that walk by the way.

¹¹ Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There they shall rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his villagers in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

¹² Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and capture your captives, you son of Abinoam.

¹³ Then the survivor went down to the nobles, the people of Yahweh went down for me as warriors.

¹⁴ Out of Ephraim their root [is] in Amalek; After you, Benjamin among your peoples; Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun those that handle the marshal's staff.

¹⁵ And the princes in Issachar were with Deborah; As was Issachar, so was Barak; Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben There were great resolves of heart.

¹⁶ Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

¹⁷ Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, And abode by his creeks.

¹⁸ Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death, And Naphtali, on the high places of the field.

¹⁹ The kings came and fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan. In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: They took no gain of money.

²⁰ From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against Sisera.

²¹ The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

²² Then the horsehoofs stamped By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

²³ Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse you bitterly the inhabitants thereof, Because they didn't come to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh against the mighty.

²⁴ Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed she shall be above women in the tent.

²⁵ He asked water, [and] she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

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

²⁷ At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

²⁸ Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots tarry?

²⁹ Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

³⁰ Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to every [able-bodied] man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?

³¹ So let all your enemies perish, O Yahweh: But let those that love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.