Richter 5:4

Schlachter Bibel

O Herr , als du von Seir auszogest, als du einhergingst vom Gefilde Edom, da erzitterte die Erde und der Himmel troff, ja die Wolken troffen vom Wasser.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Jehova! Als du auszogest von Seir, als du einherschrittest vom Gefilde Edoms, da erzitterte die Erde; auch troffen die Himmel, auch troffen die Wolken von Wasser.

Lutherbible (1912)
HERR, da du von Seir auszogst und einhergingst vom Felde Edoms, da erzitterte die Erde, der Himmel troff, und die Wolken troffen von Wasser.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord: Deuteronomy 33:2, Psalms 68:7, Psalms 68:8, Habakkuk 3:3-6

the earth: 2 Samuel 22:8, Job 9:6, Psalms 18:7-15

dropped: Psalms 77:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 33:14 - unto Seir Psalms 46:3 - mountains Psalms 97:5 - hills Psalms 114:4 - General Isaiah 64:1 - that the Isaiah 64:3 - thou didst Jeremiah 4:24 - mountains Jeremiah 10:10 - at Micah 1:4 - the mountains Habakkuk 3:10 - mountains

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom,.... Here properly begins the song, what goes before being but a preface to it; and it begins with an apostrophe to the Lord, taking notice of some ancient appearances of God for his people, which were always matter of praise and thankfulness; and the rather are they taken notice of here, because of some likeness between them and what God had now wrought; and this passage refers either to the giving of the law on Sinai, as the Targum and Jarchi; see Deuteronomy 33:2; or rather, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and others, to the Lord's going before Israel, after they had encompassed the land of Edom, and marched from thence towards the land of Canaan, when they fought with Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and conquered them; which struck terror into all the nations round about them, and the prophecies of Moses in his song began to be fulfilled, Exodus 15:14; and which dread and terror are expressed in the following figurative phrases:

the earth trembled; and the like figure Homer a uses at the approach of Neptune, whom he calls the shaker of the earth, perhaps borrowed from hence; it may design the inhabitants of it, the Amorites, Moabites, Edomites, Philistines, Canaanites, and others:

and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water; which, as it may literally refer to the storm and tempest of rain that might be then as now, see Judges 4:15, so may figuratively express the panic great personages, comparable to the heavens and the clouds in them were thrown into, when their hearts melted like water, or were like clouds dissolved into it.

a τρεμε δ' ουρεα μακρα και υλη, Iliad. 13. v. 18, 34, 44.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Psalms 68:7-9, and Habakkuk 3:3-16. The three passages relate to the same events, and mutually explain each other. The subject of them is the triumphant march of Israel, with the Lord at their head, to take possession of Canaan, and the overthrow of Sihon, Og, and the Midianites. This march commenced from Kadesh, in the immediate neighborhood of Self, and the victories which followed were an exact parallel to the victory of Deborah and Barak, accompanied as it had been with the storm which made Kishon to overflow his banks.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 5:4. When thou wentest out of Seir — Here is an allusion to the giving of the law, and the manifestation of God's power and glory at that time; and as this was the most signal display of his majesty and mercy in behalf of their forefathers, Deborah very properly begins her song with a commemoration of this transaction.