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Give ear, you princes! I, [even] I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, even Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. "Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>'Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"Then a remnant of the nobles [and] the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal's staff came out of Zebulun.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the deaths; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of Yahweh. 'Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>"Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>"Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother looked through the lattice. 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>'Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>"So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." 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