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5:1  Then sang Devorah and Barak ben Avinoam on that day, saying,
5:2  Barachu Hashem that the strong in Yisroel put forth strength, that the people willingly offered themselves.
5:3  Hear, O ye melachim; give ear, O ye rozenim (princes); I, even I, will sing unto Hashem; I will make music to Hashem Elohei Yisroel.
5:4  Hashem, when Thou wentest out from Seir, when Thou marchedst out of the sadeh Edom, Eretz trembled, HaShomayim poured, clouds also poured down mayim.
5:5  The harim quaked at the presence of Hashem, this Sinai before Hashem Elohei Yisroel.
5:6  In the days of Shamgar ben Anat, in the days of Yael, the roads were abandoned, and the travellers walked the byways.
5:7  The warrior ceased, they ceased in Yisroel, until I, Devorah, arose, I Em B’Yisroel arose.
5:8  They chose elohim chadashim when war was at the she’arim (gates); was there a mogen or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Yisroel?
5:9  My lev is toward the ones ruling in Yisroel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Barachu Hashem.
5:10  Reflect, ye that ride on white donkeys, ye that sit on saddle blankets, and walk on the derech.
5:11  The voice of the singers in the place of drawing mayim, there shall they rehearse the Tzidkot Hashem, even the Tzidkot of His warriors in Yisroel; then shall HaAm Hashem go down to the she’arim.
5:12  Awake, awake, Devorah; awake, awake, break out in song; arise, Barak, and lead captive thy captives, thou ben Avinoam.
5:13  Then came down a sarid (remnant) to the nobles; the people of Hashem came down to me as gibborim.
5:14  Out of Ephrayim was their shoresh against Amalek; after thee, Binyamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down mekhokekim (law givers), and out of Zevulun they that hold the shevet of the sofer (scribe).
5:15  And the sarim of Yissakhar were with Devorah; Yissakhar was with Barak; he rushed at his feet into the emek. Among the divisions of Reuven there were gedolim chikkei lev (great searchings, indecisions of heart).
5:16  Why abodest thou among the mishpetayim (sheepfolds), to hear the bleatings of the flocks? Among the divisions of Reuven there were great indecisions of heart.
5:17  Gil‘ad abode beyond Yarden; and why did Dan linger by oniyyot? Asher remained on the seacoast, and dwelt by his landings.
5:18  Zevulun and Naphtali were a people that risked their nefesh unto the death in the high places of the sadeh.
5:19  The melachim came and fought, then fought the melachim of Kena’an at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no plunder of kesef.
5:20  They fought from Shomayim; the kokhavim in their courses fought Sisra.
5:21  The Kishon River swept them away, that nachal kedumim, the Kishon River. O my nefesh, march on with oz.
5:22  Then were the ikvei sus (horse hooves) galloping, the prancings of hooves, the prancings of their mighty steeds.
5:23  Curse Meroz, said the Malach Hashem, curse bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the ezrat Hashem, to the help of Hashem, against the gibborim.
5:24  Blessed above nashim shall Yael eshet Chever the Keni be, blessed shall she be above nashim in the ohel.
5:25  He asked mayim, and she gave him cholov; she brought forth curds in a noble’s dish.
5:26  She put her yad to the yetad, and her right hand to the workman’s hammer; and with the hammer she struck Sisra, she crushed his rosh, when she had shattered and pierced his temple.
5:27  At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, sham (there) he fell down dead.
5:28  The Em Sisra looked out through the chalon (window), and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his marekevot (chariots)?
5:29  Her chachemot sarot (wisest ladies) answered her, indeed, she repeats to herself her words,
5:30  Are they not finding and dividing the prey; to every gever a girl or two; for Sisra colorful garments as plunder, a plunder of dyed work embroidered, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, fit for the necks of them that take the spoil?
5:31  So let all thine enemies perish, Hashem; but let them that love Him be as the shemesh in its gevurah. And HaAretz had rest arba’im shanah.