Judges 5

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(Jdg 5:1) Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
(Jdg 5:2) Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
(Jdg 5:3) Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, {even} I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing {praise} to the Lord God of Israel.
(Jdg 5:4) Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
(Jdg 5:5) The mountains melted from before the Lord, {even} that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
(Jdg 5:6) In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
(Jdg 5:7) {The inhabitants of} the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
(Jdg 5:8) They chose new gods; then {was} war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
(Jdg 5:9) My heart {is} toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.
(Jdg 5:10) Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
(Jdg 5:11) {They that are delivered} from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, {even} the righteous acts {toward the inhabitants} of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
(Jdg 5:12) Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
(Jdg 5:13) Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
(Jdg 5:14) Out of Ephraim {was there} a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
(Jdg 5:15) And the princes of Issachar {were} with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben {there were} great thoughts of heart.
(Jdg 5:16) Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben {there were} great searchings of heart.
(Jdg 5:17) Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
(Jdg 5:18) Zebulun and Naphtali {were} a people {that} jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
(Jdg 5:19) The kings came {and} fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
(Jdg 5:20) They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
(Jdg 5:21) The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
(Jdg 5:22) Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
(Jdg 5:23) Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
(Jdg 5:24) Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
(Jdg 5:25) He asked water, {and} she gave {him} milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
(Jdg 5:26) She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
(Jdg 5:27) At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
(Jdg 5:28) The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot {so} long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
(Jdg 5:29) Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
(Jdg 5:30) Have they not sped? have they {not} divided the prey; to every man a damsel {or} two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, {meet} for the necks of {them that take} the spoil?
(Jdg 5:31) 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.
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