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Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, (5:1)

Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves (5:2)

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 (5:3)

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 (5:4)

The mountains melted from before the Lord, [even] that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel (5:5)

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways (5:6)

[The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel (5:7)

They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? (5:8)

My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord (5:9)

Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way (5:10)

[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 (5:11)

Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam (5:12)

Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty (5:13)

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 (5:14)

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 (5:15)

Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great searchings of heart (5:16)

Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches (5:17)

Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field (5:18)

The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money (5:19)

They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera (5:20)

The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength (5:21)

Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones (5:22)

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 (5:23)

Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent (5:24)

He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish (5:25)

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 (5:26)

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 (5:27)

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? (5:28)

Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, (5:29)

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? (5:30)

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 (5:31)

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