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5:1  1 The song and thanksgiving of Deborah and Barak, after the victory. Then sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam the same day, saying,
5:2  Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, and for the people that offered themselves willingly.
5:3  Hear, ye kings, hearken ye princes: I, even I will sing unto the Lord: I will sing praise unto the Lord God of Israel.
5:4  Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens rained, the clouds also dropped water.
5:5  The mountains melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel.
5:6  In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of  Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways.
5:7  The towns were not inhabited: they decayed, I say, in Israel, until I Deborah came up, which rose up a mother in Israel.
5:8  They chose new gods: then was war in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand of Israel?
5:9  Mine heart is set on the governors of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.
5:10  Speak ye that ride on white asses, ye that dwell by Middin, and that walk by the way.
5:11  For the noise of the archers appraised among the drawers of water: there shall they rehearse the righteousness of the Lord, his righteousness of his towns in Israel: then did the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
5:12  Up Deborah, up, arise, and sing a song: arise Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
5:13  For they that remain, have dominion over the mighty of the people: the Lord hath given me dominion over the strong.
5:14  Of Ephraim their root arose against Amalek: and after thee Benjamin shall fight against thy people, O Amalek, of Machir came rulers, and of Zebulun, they that handle the pen of the writer.
5:15  And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar, and also Barak: he was set on his feet in the valley: for the divisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart.
5:16  Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? for the divisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart.
5:17  Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why doth Dan remain in ships? Asher sat on the seashore, and tarried in his decayed places.
5:18  But the people of Zebulun and Naphtali have jeopardized their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
5:19  The Kings came and fought: then fought the Kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they received no gain of money.
5:20  They fought from heaven, even the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
5:21  The River Kishon swept them away, that ancient river the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast marched valiantly.
5:22  Then were the horse hoofs broken with the oft beating together of their mighty men.
5:23  Curse ye Meroz: (said the Angel of the Lord) curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to help the Lord, to help the Lord against the mighty.
5:24  Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite shall be blessed above other women: blessed shall she be above women dwelling in tents.
5:25  He asked water, and she gave him milk: she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
5:26  She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman’s hammer: with the hammer smote she Sisera: she smote off his head, after she had wounded and pierced his temples.
5:27  He bowed him down at her feet, he fell down, and lay still: at her feet he bowed him down, and fell: and when he had sunk down, he lay there dead.
5:28  The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long a coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
5:29  Her wise ladies answered her, Yea. She answered herself with her own words,
5:30  Have they not gotten, and they divide the spoil? every man hath a maid or two. Sisera hath a prey of diverse colored garments, a prey of sundry colors made of needle work: of diverse colors of needle work on both sides, for the chief of the spoil.
5:31  So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but they that love him, shall be as the Sun when he riseth in his might, and the land had rest forty years.