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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 to 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 travelers walked through by-ways.

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] towards 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 [towards 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 sheep-folds, 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 to death in the high places of the field.

19 - The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Tanach 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 horse's hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.

23 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; 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 struck 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, yes, she returned answer to herself.

30 - Have they not found; have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needle-work, of divers colors of needle-work on both sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?

31 - So let all thy 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.