Judges 5:1�Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel,�when the people willingly offered themselves.
3 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.
4 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 The mountains melted from before the Lord,�even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
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.
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel,�until that I Deborah arose,�that I arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods;�then was war in the gates:�was there a shield or spear seen�among forty thousand in Israel?
9 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.
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.
