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id="topheading"><a href="../judges/4.htm" title="Judges 4">◄</a> Judges 5 <a href="../judges/6.htm" title="Judges 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When men let grow their hair in Israel,</div><div class="po2">When the people offer themselves willingly,</div><div class="po2">Bless ye the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes;</div><div class="po2">I, unto the LORD will I sing;</div><div class="po2">I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>LORD, when Thou didst go forth out of</div><div class="po2">Seir,</div><div class="po2">When Thou didst march out of the field of Edom,</div><div class="po2">The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped,</div><div class="po2">Yea, the clouds dropped water.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The mountains quaked at the presence of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Even yon Sinai at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,</div><div class="po2">In the days of Jael, the highways ceased,</div><div class="po2">And the travellers walked through byways.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased,</div><div class="po2">Until that thou didst arise, Deborah,</div><div class="po2">That thou didst arise a mother in Israel.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They chose new gods;</div><div class="po2">Then was war in the gates;</div><div class="po2">Was there a shield or spear seen</div><div class="po2">Among forty thousand in Israel?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My heart is toward the governors of</div><div class="po2">Israel,</div><div class="po2">That offered themselves willingly among the people.</div><div class="po2">Bless ye the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ye that ride on white asses,</div><div class="po2">Ye that sit on rich cloths,</div><div class="po2">And ye that walk by the way, tell of it;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs!</div><div class="po2">There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Even the righteous acts of His rulers in Israel.</div><div class="po2">Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Awake, awake, Deborah;</div><div class="po2">Awake, awake, utter a song;</div><div class="po2">Arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then made He a remnant to have dominion over the nobles and the people;</div><div class="po2">The LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek;</div><div class="po2">After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples;</div><div class="po2">Out of Machir came down governors,</div><div class="po2">And out of Zebulun they that handle the marshal’s staff.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;</div><div class="po2">As was Issachar, so was Barak;</div><div class="po2">Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet.</div><div class="po2">Among the divisions of Reuben</div><div class="po2">There were great resolves of heart.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Why sattest thou among the sheep-folds,</div><div class="po2">To hear the pipings for the flocks?</div><div class="po2">At the divisions of Reuben</div><div class="po2">There were great searchings of heart.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Gilead abode beyond the Jordan;</div><div class="po2">And Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?</div><div class="po2">Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea,</div><div class="po2">And abideth by its bays.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death,</div><div class="po2">And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The kings came, they fought;</div><div class="po2">Then fought the kings of Canaan,</div><div class="po2">In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo;</div><div class="po2">They took no gain of money.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They fought from heaven,</div><div class="po2">The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The brook Kishon swept them away,</div><div class="po2">That ancient brook, the brook Kishon. O my soul, tread them down with strength.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then did the horsehoofs stamp</div><div class="po2">By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>‘Curse ye Meroz’, said the angel of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">‘Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof,</div><div class="po2">Because they came not to the help of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">To the help of the LORD against the mighty.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Blessed above women shall Jael be,</div><div class="po2">The wife of Heber the Kenite,</div><div class="po2">Above women in the tent shall she be blessed.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Water he asked, milk she gave him;</div><div class="po2">In a lordly bowl she brought him curd.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Her hand she put to the tent-pin,</div><div class="po2">And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer;</div><div class="po2">And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head,</div><div class="po2">Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>At her feet he sunk, he fell, he lay;</div><div class="po2">At her feet he sunk, he fell;</div><div class="po2">Where he sunk, there he fell down dead.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Through the window she looked forth, and peered,</div><div class="po2">The mother of Sisera, through the lattice:</div><div class="po2">‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?</div><div class="po2">Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The wisest of her princesses answer her,</div><div class="po2">Yea, she returneth answer to herself:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>‘Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?</div><div class="po2">A damsel, two damsels to every man;</div><div class="po2">To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments,</div><div class="po2">A spoil of dyed garments of embroidery,</div><div class="po2">Two dyed garments of broidery for the neck of every spoiler?’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So perish all Thine enemies, O LORD;</div><div class="po2">But they that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.</div><div class="po2">And the land had rest forty years.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../judges/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/judges/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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