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JUDGES ยท Chapter 5
5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
5:2 Praise all of you the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the
people willingly offered themselves.
5:3 Hear, O all of you kings; give ear, O all of you princes; I, even
I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
5:4 LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field
of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped
water.
5:5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from
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 travellers walked through byways.
5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel,
until that I Deborah arose, that I arose 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 in Israel?
5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves
willingly among the people. Bless all of you the LORD.
5:10 Speak, all of you that ride on white asses, all of you that sit
in judgment, and walk by the way.
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.
5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak,
and lead your captivity captive, you son of Abinoam.
5:13 Then he made him that remains have dominion over the nobles among
the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
5:14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after
you, Benjamin, among your people; out of Machir came down governors, and
out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
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.
5:16 Why abode you among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the
flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher
continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that 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 took no gain of money.
5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against
Sisera.
5:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river
Kishon. O my soul, you have trodden down strength.
5:22 Then were the horse-hoofs broken by the means of the prancings,
the prancings of their mighty ones.
5:23 Curse all of you Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse all
of you bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help
of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be,
blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
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 workmen's
hammer; and with the hammer she stroke Sisera, she stroke off his head,
when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
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.
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?
5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
5:30 Have they not succeeded? 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?
5:31 So let all of your enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love
him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest
forty years.
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