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give ear ye princes; I, to Jehovah, will I sing; I will play to Jehovah, God of Israel.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The mountains flowed from before Jehovah, This Sinai from before Jehovah, the God of Israel.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The rulers ceased in Israel: they ceased Till I, Deborah, arose: I arose a mother in Israel.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He will choose new gods; Then war in the gates: If a shield was seen, and a lance, Among forty thousand in Israel.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My heart to the leaders of Israel, Those giving voluntarily among the people: Praise ye Jehovah.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ye riding upon white asses, Sitting upon jurisdiction, And going upon the way, speak ye.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Awake, awake! Deborah; Awake, awake! speak a song: Arise, Barak, and lead captive, thy captivity, son of Abinoam.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the one left shall go down to the chiefs of the people: Jehovah will come down to me among the mighty.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Zebulon a people reproached his soul to death, And Naphtali upon the heights of the field.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Kings came: they fought: Then fought the kings of Canaan, Tanach, upon the water of Megiddo: Plunder of silver took they not.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>From the heavens they fought; The stars from their raised ways fought with Sisera.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The torrent Kishon snatched them away The torrent of ancient days, the torrent of Kishon. Thou wilt tread down strength, O my soul.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then were the horse heels smitten From the courses, the courses of his strong ones.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Curse ye Meroz, said the messenger of Jehovah: Cursing, curse ye her inhabitants; For they came not to the help of Jehovah To the help of Jehovah against the mighty ones.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Blessed shall be Jael above women, The wife of Heber the Kenite, Above women in the tent shall she be blessed.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He asked water, she gave milk; In a prince's dish brought she curdled milk.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Her hand to the peg will she stretch forth, And her right hand to the hammer of labor, And she struck Sisera; she smote through his head, And she crushed and pierced through his temples.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: Between her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell, destroyed.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Through the window she looked forth and cried out, The mother of Sisera, through the lattice Why did his chariot delay to come? Why lingered the paces of his chariots?<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Her wise chiefs will answer, Surely, will she turn back words to herself,<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Will they not find? They will divide the spoil; He compassionated compassions to head of man; The spoil of dyed garments to Sisera, A spoil of dyed garments of variegation, Dyed of double variegation for the necks of the spoil.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So shall all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: And those loving him, as the going forth of the sun in his strength. And the land will rest forty years.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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