Judges 5 NKJV

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Give ear, O princes!</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-3">I, <i>even</i> I, will sing to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-3">I will sing praise to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“<span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, when You went out from Seir,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-4">When You marched from the field of Edom,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-4">The earth trembled and the heavens poured,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-4">The clouds also poured water;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The mountains <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>gushed before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-5">This Sinai, before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-6">In the days of Jael,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-6">The highways were deserted,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-6">And the travelers walked along the byways.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-7">Until I, Deborah, arose,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-7">Arose a mother in Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They chose new gods;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-8">Then <i>there was</i> war in the gates;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-8">Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My heart <i>is</i> with the rulers of Israel</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-9">Who offered themselves willingly with the people.</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-9">Bless the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>!</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-10">Who sit in judges’ attire,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-10">And who walk along the road.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Far from the noise of the archers, among the watering places,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-11">There they shall recount the righteous acts of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-11">The righteous acts <i>for</i> His villagers in Israel;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-11">Then the people of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> shall go down to the gates.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Awake, awake, Deborah!</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-12">Awake, awake, sing a song!</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-12">Arise, Barak, and lead your captives away,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-12">O son of Abinoam!</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Then the survivors came down, the people against the nobles;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-13">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> came down for me against the mighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>From Ephraim <i>were</i> those whose roots were in Amalek.</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-14">After you, Benjamin, with your peoples,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-14">From Machir rulers came down,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-14">And from Zebulun those who bear the recruiter’s staff.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>the princes of Issachar <i>were</i> with Deborah;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-15">As Issachar, so <i>was</i> Barak</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-15">Sent into the valley <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>under his command;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-15">Among the divisions of Reuben</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-15"><i>There were</i> great resolves of heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Why did you sit among the sheepfolds,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-16">To hear the pipings for the flocks?</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-16">The divisions of Reuben have great searchings of heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-17">And why did Dan remain <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>on ships?</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-17">Asher continued at the seashore,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-17">And stayed by his inlets.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Zebulun <i>is</i> a people <i>who</i> jeopardized their lives to the point of death,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-18">Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“The kings came <i>and</i> fought,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-19">Then the kings of Canaan fought</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-19">In Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-19">They took no spoils of silver.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They fought from the heavens;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-20">The stars from their courses fought against Sisera.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The torrent of Kishon swept them away,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-21">That ancient torrent, the torrent of Kishon.</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-21">O my soul, march on in strength!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then the horses’ hooves pounded,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-22">The galloping, galloping of his steeds.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>‘Curse Meroz,’ said the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-23">‘Curse its inhabitants bitterly,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-23">Because they did not come to the help of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-23">To the help of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> against the mighty.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Most blessed among women is Jael,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-24">The wife of Heber the Kenite;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-24">Blessed is she among women in tents.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He asked for water, she gave milk;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-25">She brought out cream in a lordly bowl.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>She stretched her hand to the tent peg,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-26">Her right hand to the workmen’s hammer;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-26">She pounded Sisera, she pierced his head,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-26">She split and struck through his temple.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>At her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-27">At her feet he sank, he fell;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-27">Where he sank, there he fell dead.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“The mother of Sisera looked through the window,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-28">And cried out through the lattice,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-28">‘Why is his chariot <i>so</i> long in coming?</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-28">Why tarries the clatter of his chariots?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Her wisest <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>ladies answered her,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-29">Yes, she <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>answered herself,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil:</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-30">To every man a girl <i>or</i> two;</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-30">For Sisera, plunder of dyed garments,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-30">Plunder of garments embroidered and dyed,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-30">Two pieces of dyed embroidery for the neck of the looter?’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Thus let all Your enemies perish, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>!</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-31">But <i>let</i> those who love Him <i>be</i> like the sun</span><br /><span class="text Judg-5-31">When it comes out in full strength.”</span></p></div><p class="first-line-none top-1"><span class="text Judg-5-31">So the land had rest for forty years.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-6626a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:2">Judges 5:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>When locks are loosed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6626b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:2">Judges 5:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>volunteer</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6629c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:5">Judges 5:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>flowed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6639d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:15">Judges 5:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT <i>And my princes in Issachar</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6639e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:15">Judges 5:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>at his feet</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6641f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:17">Judges 5:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>at ease</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6647g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:23">Judges 5:23</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Angel</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6653h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:29">Judges 5:29</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>princesses</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6653i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 5:29">Judges 5:29</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>repeats her words to herself</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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