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Then sang
Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day,
saying,
02 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel,
when the people willingly offered themselves.
03 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.
04 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.
05 The mountains melted from before the Lord,
even that Sinai from before the Lord God of
Israel.
06 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in
the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied,
and the travellers walked through byways.
07 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they
ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose,
that I arose a mother in Israel.
08 They chose new gods; then was war in the
gates: was there a shield or spear seen among
forty thousand in Israel?
09 My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
that offered themselves willingly among the
people. Bless ye the Lord.
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that
sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
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.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a
song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity
captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion
over the nobles among the people: the Lord made
me have dominion over the mighty.
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.
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.
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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.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan
remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea
shore, and abode in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that
jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high
places of the field.
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.
20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their
courses fought against Sisera.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that
ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou
hast trodden down strength.
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means
of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty
ones.
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.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of
Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above
women in the tent.
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she
brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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.
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.
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?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she
returned answer to herself,
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?
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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