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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Judges 5 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/judges/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Judges 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3>The Song of Deborah</h3>1Then Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying: <div class="poetry">2“When locks are long in Israel,     when the people offer themselves willingly—     blessa</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>] the Lord!</div> <div class="poetry top-1">3“Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;     to the Lord I will sing,     I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">4“Lord, when you went out from Seir,     when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled,     and the heavens poured,     the clouds indeed poured water. 5The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,     before the Lord, the God of Israel.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">6“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,     in the days of Jael, caravans ceased     and travelers kept to the byways. 7The peasantry prospered in Israel,     they grew fat on plunder, because you arose, Deborah,     arose as a mother in Israel. 8When new gods were chosen,     then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen     among forty thousand in Israel? 9My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel     who offered themselves willingly among the people.     Bless the Lord.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">10“Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys,     you who sit on rich carpetsb</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]     and you who walk by the way. 11To the sound of musiciansc</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>] at the watering places,     there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord,     the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel.</div><div class="poetry top-1">“Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">12“Awake, awake, Deborah!     Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives,     O son of Abinoam. 13Then down marched the remnant of the noble;     the people of the Lord marched down for himd</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>] against the mighty. 14From Ephraim they set oute</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>] into the valley,f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]     following you, Benjamin, with your kin; from Machir marched down the commanders,     and from Zebulun those who bear the marshal’s staff; 15the chiefs of Issachar came with Deborah,     and Issachar faithful to Barak;     into the valley they rushed out at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben     there were great searchings of heart. 16Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds,     to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben     there were great searchings of heart. 17Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;     and Dan, why did he abide with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea,     settling down by his landings. 18Zebulun is a people that scorned death;     Naphtali too, on the heights of the field.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">19“The kings came, they fought;     then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;     they got no spoils of silver. 20The stars fought from heaven,     from their courses they fought against Sisera. 21The torrent Kishon swept them away,     the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon.     March on, my soul, with might!</div> <div class="poetry top-1">22“Then loud beat the horses’ hoofs     with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">23“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,     curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of the Lord,     to the help of the Lord against the mighty.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">24“Most blessed of women be Jael,     the wife of Heber the Kenite,     of tent-dwelling women most blessed. 25He asked water and she gave him milk,     she brought him curds in a lordly bowl. 26She put her hand to the tent peg     and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera a blow,     she crushed his head,     she shattered and pierced his temple. 27He sank, he fell,     he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell;     where he sank, there he fell dead.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">28“Out of the window she peered,     the mother of Sisera gazedg</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>] through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?     Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’ 29Her wisest ladies make answer,     indeed, she answers the question herself: 30‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?—     A girl or two for every man; spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera,     spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered,     two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’</div> <div class="poetry top-1">31“So perish all your enemies, O Lord!     But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.”</div>And the land had rest forty years. <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Judges 5:2">Judges 5:2</a> Or You who offer yourselves willingly among the people, bless</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Judges 5:10">Judges 5:10</a> Meaning of Heb uncertain</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Judges 5:11">Judges 5:11</a> Meaning of Heb uncertain</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Judges 5:13">Judges 5:13</a> Gk: Heb me</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Judges 5:14">Judges 5:14</a> Cn: Heb From Ephraim their root</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Judges 5:14">Judges 5:14</a> Gk: Heb in Amalek</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Judges 5:28">Judges 5:28</a> Gk Compare Tg: Heb exclaimed</li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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