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But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.&#8221 Then the land had peace forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/judges/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“LORD, may all your enemies die like Sisera! But may those who love you rise like the sun in all its power!” Then there was peace in the land for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/judges/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/judges/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/judges/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but <i>let</i> them that love him <i>be</i> as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/judges/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But <i>let</i> those who love Him <i>be</i> like the sun When it comes out in full strength.” So the land had rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/judges/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“May all Your enemies perish in this way, LORD; But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” And the land was at rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/judges/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.&#8221 And the land was undisturbed for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/judges/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Thus let all Thine enemies perish, O LORD; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”<PR>And the land was undisturbed for forty years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/judges/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Yahweh; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” And the land was quiet for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/judges/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“So let all Your enemies perish, O LORD; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” And the land was at rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/judges/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />LORD, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did. But may those who love him be like the rising of the sun in its strength. And the land had peace for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/judges/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br /> LORD, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did. But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its strength. And the land was peaceful 40 years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/judges/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />So let all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/judges/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Our LORD, we pray that all your enemies will die like Sisera. But let everyone who loves you shine brightly like the sun at dawn. There was peace in Israel for about 40 years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/judges/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/judges/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />May all your enemies die like that, O LORD. But may those who love the LORD be like the sun when it rises in all its brightness. So the land had peace for 40 years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/judges/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So may all your enemies die like that, O LORD, but may your friends shine like the rising sun! And there was peace in the land for forty years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/judges/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"May all of your enemies perish like this, LORD! But may those who love him be like the ascending sun in its strength!" Then the land enjoyed quiet for 40 years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/judges/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.? And the land had rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/judges/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />May all your enemies perish like this, O LORD! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest!" And the land had rest for forty years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/judges/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love you be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." And the land had rest forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/judges/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />So let all thy enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/judges/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/judges/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />So do all Your enemies perish, O YHWH, "" And those loving Him [are] "" As the going out of the sun in its might!” And the land rests [for] forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/judges/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him are As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/judges/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/judges/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising. And the land rested for forty years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/judges/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />O Lord, so may all your enemies perish! But may those who love you shine with splendor, as the sun shines at its rising.” <V 5:32>And the land rested for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/judges/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />So perish all your enemies, O LORD! But may those who love you be like the sun rising in its might! And the land was at rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/judges/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />“So perish all your enemies, O LORD! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/judges/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD; but let them that love thee be like the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/judges/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Thus all your enemies shall be destroyed LORD JEHOVAH, and your lovers are as the sun coming forth in its power!” And the land was quiet forty years <div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/judges/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />So perish all Thine enemies, O LORD; But they that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/judges/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Thus let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: and they that love him shall be as the going forth of the sun in his strength. And the land had rest forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/judges/5-31.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AjzBiIYY2Dc?start=1460" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/judges/5.htm">The Song of Deborah and Barak</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">30</span>‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’ <span class="reftext">31</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: kên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">So</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ḵāl (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">may all</a> <a href="/hebrew/341.htm" title="341: ’ō·wy·ḇe·ḵā (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc:: 2ms) -- Hating, an adversary. Or owyeb; active participle of 'ayab; hating; an adversary.">Your enemies</a> <a href="/hebrew/6.htm" title="6: yō·ḇə·ḏū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To perish. A primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. Lose oneself; by implication to perish.">perish,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">O LORD!</a> <a href="/hebrew/157.htm" title="157: wə·’ō·hă·ḇāw (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc:: 3ms) -- To love. Or raheb; a primitive root; to have affection for.">But may those who love You</a> <a href="/hebrew/3318.htm" title="3318: kə·ṣêṯ (Prep-k:: V-Qal-Inf) -- A primitive root; to go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.">shine like</a> <a href="/hebrew/8121.htm" title="8121: haš·še·meš (Art:: N-cs) -- From an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. A notched battlement.">the sun</a> <a href="/hebrew/1369.htm" title="1369: biḡ·ḇu·rā·ṯōw (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Strength, might. Feminine passive participle from the same as gibbowr; force; by implication, valor, victory.">at its brightest.”</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">And the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/8252.htm" title="8252: wat·tiš·qōṭ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To be quiet or undisturbed. A primitive root; to repose.">had rest</a> <a href="/hebrew/705.htm" title="705: ’ar·bā·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Forty. Multiple of arba'; forty.">for forty</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">years.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1-3</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence. / As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God. / But the righteous will be glad and rejoice before God; they will celebrate with joy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/83-9.htm">Psalm 83:9-18</a></span><br />Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon, / who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground. / Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/92-7.htm">Psalm 92:7-9</a></span><br />that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed. / But You, O LORD, are exalted forever! / For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/104-35.htm">Psalm 104:35</a></span><br />May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-14.htm">Isaiah 66:14</a></span><br />When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-24.htm">Isaiah 66:24</a></span><br />“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/4-18.htm">Proverbs 4:18</a></span><br />The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/11-10.htm">Proverbs 11:10</a></span><br />When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/24-17.htm">Proverbs 24:17-18</a></span><br />Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, / or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1-3</a></span><br />“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.” / “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall. / Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/23-4.htm">2 Samuel 23:4</a></span><br />is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/1-6.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:6-10</a></span><br />After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, / and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels / in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/16-20.htm">Romans 16:20</a></span><br />The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-25.htm">1 Corinthians 15:25</a></span><br />For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-1.htm">Revelation 19:1-2</a></span><br />After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God! / For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">So let all your enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.</p><p class="hdg">so let</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/48-4.htm">Psalm 48:4,5</a></b></br> For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm">Psalm 58:10,11</a></b></br> The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1-3</a></b></br> To the chief Musician, A Psalm <i>or</i> Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him… </p><p class="hdg">them that</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/20-6.htm">Exodus 20:6</a></b></br> And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/6-5.htm">Deuteronomy 6:5</a></b></br> And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/91-14.htm">Psalm 91:14</a></b></br> Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.</p><p class="hdg">the sun</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/23-4.htm">2 Samuel 23:4</a></b></br> And <i>he shall be</i> as the light of the morning, <i>when</i> the sun riseth, <i>even</i> a morning without clouds; <i>as</i> the tender grass <i>springing</i> out of the earth by clear shining after rain.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/19-4.htm">Psalm 19:4,5</a></b></br> Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/37-6.htm">Psalm 37:6</a></b></br> And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.</p><p class="hdg">And the land.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/3-11.htm">Judges 3:11,30</a></b></br> And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/joshua/24-8.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/judges/3-28.htm">Enemies</a> <a href="/judges/2-14.htm">Haters</a> <a href="/joshua/23-11.htm">Love</a> <a href="/judges/4-17.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/joshua/23-16.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/judges/4-11.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/judges/3-30.htm">Resteth</a> <a href="/joshua/11-17.htm">Rises</a> <a href="/joshua/12-1.htm">Rising</a> <a href="/judges/5-21.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/joshua/23-4.htm">Sun</a> <a href="/judges/3-30.htm">Undisturbed</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/judges/6-5.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/judges/8-34.htm">Enemies</a> <a href="/judges/8-34.htm">Haters</a> <a href="/judges/14-16.htm">Love</a> <a href="/judges/6-23.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/1_samuel/12-25.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/judges/7-6.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/judges/16-26.htm">Resteth</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-20.htm">Rises</a> <a href="/judges/9-33.htm">Rising</a> <a href="/judges/6-14.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/judges/8-13.htm">Sun</a> <a href="/judges/8-28.htm">Undisturbed</a><div class="vheading2">Judges 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/judges/5-1.htm">The Song of Deborah and Barak</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/judges/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/judges/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/judges/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD!</b><br>This phrase is a call for divine justice and reflects the biblical theme of God's ultimate victory over His adversaries. It echoes the sentiment found in other scriptures, such as <a href="/psalms/68.htm">Psalm 68:1-2</a>, where the enemies of God are scattered. The context of <a href="/judges/5.htm">Judges 5</a> is the Song of Deborah, celebrating Israel's victory over the Canaanite king Jabin and his commander Sisera. This victory is attributed to God's intervention, emphasizing His role as a divine warrior. The phrase also foreshadows the ultimate defeat of evil, as seen in <a href="/revelation/20-10.htm">Revelation 20:10</a>, where Satan and his forces are finally vanquished.<p><b>But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.</b><br>This imagery of shining like the sun is a metaphor for righteousness and divine favor. It is reminiscent of <a href="/matthew/13-43.htm">Matthew 13:43</a>, where the righteous are said to shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The phrase suggests a stark contrast between the fate of God's enemies and those who are faithful to Him. In the cultural context of ancient Israel, light often symbolizes life, blessing, and God's presence, as seen in <a href="/numbers/6-25.htm">Numbers 6:25</a>, where the Lord's face shining upon someone is a sign of blessing. This phrase also points to the transformative power of God's love and the glorification of believers, a theme that is further developed in the New Testament.<p><b>And the land had rest for forty years.</b><br>The forty-year period of rest signifies a generation's worth of peace and stability, a common motif in the Book of Judges. This rest is a direct result of God's deliverance and the people's obedience, as seen in the cyclical pattern of sin, oppression, deliverance, and peace throughout Judges. The number forty is significant in biblical numerology, often representing a period of testing or completeness, as seen in the forty years of Israel's wilderness wanderings (<a href="/exodus/16-35.htm">Exodus 16:35</a>) and Jesus' forty days of fasting (<a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Matthew 4:2</a>). This rest is a temporary foretaste of the ultimate rest promised to God's people, as described in <a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Hebrews 4:9-10</a>, where believers are invited to enter God's eternal rest through faith in Christ.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/deborah.htm">Deborah</a></b><br>A prophetess and judge of Israel who, along with Barak, led Israel to victory over the Canaanite army led by Sisera.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/b/barak.htm">Barak</a></b><br>The military leader who, under Deborah's guidance, led the Israelites to victory.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/sisera.htm">Sisera</a></b><br>The commander of the Canaanite army defeated by Deborah and Barak.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jael.htm">Jael</a></b><br>The woman who killed Sisera, fulfilling the prophecy that a woman would defeat him.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation experiencing a period of peace following the victory over the Canaanites.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_justice.htm">Divine Justice</a></b><br>God's justice is sure and His enemies will ultimately perish. Believers can trust in His righteous judgment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/love_for_god.htm">Love for God</a></b><br>Those who love God are likened to the sun in its strength, symbolizing vitality, righteousness, and influence. Believers are called to shine brightly in a dark world.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/peace_and_rest.htm">Peace and Rest</a></b><br>The forty years of peace following the victory remind us that obedience and faithfulness to God lead to rest and stability.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/role_of_women_in_god's_plan.htm">Role of Women in God's Plan</a></b><br>Deborah and Jael highlight the significant roles women can play in God's redemptive history, challenging cultural norms and expectations.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/v/victory_through_faith.htm">Victory through Faith</a></b><br>The victory over Sisera was achieved through faith and obedience to God's command, encouraging believers to trust in God's plans even when they seem daunting.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_judges_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Judges 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/are_those_who_love_him_like_the_sun.htm">Are those who love Him like the sun?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_laodicea.htm">Are those who love Him like the sun?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_challenges_did_deborah_face.htm">What challenges did Deborah overcome throughout her life?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_were_deborah_and_barak_biblically.htm">Who were Deborah and Barak in biblical history?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(31) <span class= "bld">So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord.</span>--The abrupt burst in which the song rushes, as it were, to its conclusion, is very grand. The total frustration of the hopes of the princesses is all the more forcibly implied by the scorn with which it is left unexpressed. The one word "so" sums up the story in all its striking phases; and this passionate exclamation accounts, in part, for the intensity of feeling which runs through the whole poem, by showing that Deborah regards the battle as part of one great religious crusade. The completeness of the overthrow caused it to be long remembered as an example of Israel's triumph over God's enemies (<a href="/context/psalms/83-9.htm" title="Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:">Psalm 83:9-10</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/83-12.htm" title="Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.">Psalm 83:12-15</a>). When the Christian warriors of the first crusade were riding deep in the blood of the murdered Saracens, after the capture of Jerusalem, they were fully convinced that they were "doing God service;" and so filled were they with religious emotion, that at vesper-time they all suddenly fell upon their knees with streaming tears. The general dissemination of a feeling of pity--pity even for our worst enemies--is a very modern feeling, and still far from universal.<p><span class= "bld">But let them that love him.</span>--This is probably the right reading, though it was early altered into "they that love thee."<p><span class= "bld">As the sun when he goeth forth in his might.</span>--For the metaphor, comp. <a href="/context/psalms/19-4.htm" title="Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,">Psalm 19:4-5</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/68-1.htm" title="Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.">Psalm 68:1-3</a>; <a href="/daniel/12-3.htm" title="And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.">Daniel 12:3</a>; <a href="/matthew/13-43.htm" title="Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.">Matthew 13:43</a>. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 31.</span> - A fine application of the whole subject! Each such victory was a foretaste of the final victory over sin and death, and of the glory of the redeemed Church. <p> <p> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/judges/5-31.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">So</span><br /><span class="heb">כֵּ֠ן</span> <span class="translit">(kên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> </span><span class="str2">So -- thus</span><br /><br /><span class="word">may all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָל־</span> <span class="translit">(ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your enemies</span><br /><span class="heb">אוֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ō·wy·ḇe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_341.htm">Strong's 341: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hating, an adversary</span><br /><br /><span class="word">perish,</span><br /><span class="heb">יֹאבְד֤וּ</span> <span class="translit">(yō·ḇə·ḏū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6.htm">Strong's 6: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wander away, lose oneself, to perish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O LORD,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">But may those who love You</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’ō·hă·ḇāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_157.htm">Strong's 157: </a> </span><span class="str2">To have affection f</span><br /><br /><span class="word">shine like</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּצֵ֥את</span> <span class="translit">(kə·ṣêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3318.htm">Strong's 3318: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, bring, out, direct and proxim</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the sun</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ</span> <span class="translit">(haš·še·meš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8121.htm">Strong's 8121: </a> </span><span class="str2">The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement</span><br /><br /><span class="word">at its brightest.</span><br /><span class="heb">בִּגְבֻרָת֑וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(biḡ·ḇu·rā·ṯōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1369.htm">Strong's 1369: </a> </span><span class="str2">Force, valor, victory</span><br /><br /><span class="word">And the land</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאָ֖רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ā·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">had rest</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּשְׁקֹ֥ט</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tiš·qōṭ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8252.htm">Strong's 8252: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be quiet or undisturbed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for forty</span><br /><span class="heb">אַרְבָּעִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ar·bā·‘îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_705.htm">Strong's 705: </a> </span><span class="str2">Forty</span><br /><br /><span class="word">years.</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁנָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(šā·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> </span><span class="str2">A year</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/judges/5-31.htm">OT History: Judges 5:31 So let all your enemies perish Yahweh (Jd Judg. 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