Judges 5 : 1 (LXXEN)
And Debbora and Barac son of Abineem sang in that day, saying,
Judges 5 : 2 (LXXEN)
A revelation was made in Israel when the people were made willing: Praise ye the Lord.
Judges 5 : 3 (LXXEN)
Hear, ye kings, and hearken, rulers: I will sing, it is I who will sing to the Lord, it is I, I will sing a psalm to the Lord the God of Israel.
Judges 5 : 4 (LXXEN)
O Lord, in thy going forth on Seir, when thou wentest forth out of the land of Edom, the earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, and the clouds dropped water.
Judges 5 : 5 (LXXEN)
The mountains were shaken before the face of the Lord Eloi, this Sina before the face of the Lord God of Israel.
Judges 5 : 6 (LXXEN)
In the days of Samegar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, they deserted the ways, and went in by-ways; they went in crooked paths.
Judges 5 : 7 (LXXEN)
The mighty men in Israel failed, they failed until Debbora arose, until she arose a mother in Israel.
Judges 5 : 8 (LXXEN)
They chose new gods; then the cities of rulers fought; *Gr. if there should be seen there was not a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel.
Judges 5 : 9 (LXXEN)
My heart inclines to the orders given in Israel; ye that are willing among the people, bless the Lord.
Judges 5 : 10 (LXXEN)
Ye that mount a she-ass at noon-day, ye that sit on the judgement-seat, and walk by the roads of them that sit in judgement by the way; declare
Judges 5 : 11 (LXXEN)
ye that are delivered from the noise of *Gr. noisy ones disturbers among the drawers of water; there shall they relate righteous acts: O Lord, increase righteous acts in Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the cities.
Judges 5 : 12 (LXXEN)
Awake, awake, Debbora; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barac, and lead thy captivity captive, son of Abineem.
Judges 5 : 13 (LXXEN)
Then went down the remnant to the strong, the people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me.
Judges 5 : 14 (LXXEN)
Ephraim rooted them out in Amalec, behind thee was Benjamin among thy people: the inhabitants of Machir came down with me searching out the enemy, and from Zabulon came they that *Rather, draw or handle the scribe’s pen, etc. draw with the scribe’s pen of record.
Judges 5 : 15 (LXXEN)
And princes in Issachar were with Debbora and Barac, thus she sent Barac on his feet in the valleys into the portions of Ruben; great pangs *Gr. reaching reached to the heart.
Judges 5 : 16 (LXXEN)
Why did they sit between the sheep-folds to hear the bleating of flocks for the divisions of Ruben? there were great searchings of heart.
Judges 5 : 17 (LXXEN)
Galaad is on the other side of Jordan where he pitched his tents; and why does Dan remain in ships? Aser sat down on the sea-coasts, and he will tabernacle at his *Or, places of egress, etc. ports.
Judges 5 : 18 (LXXEN)
The people Zabulon *Lit. reproached exposed their soul to death, and Nephthali came to the high places of their land.
Judges 5 : 19 (LXXEN)
Kings set themselves in array, then the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanaach at the water of Mageddo; they took no gift of money.
Judges 5 : 20 (LXXEN)
The stars from heaven set themselves in array, they set themselves to fight with Sisara out of their paths.
Judges 5 : 21 (LXXEN)
The brook of Kison swept them away, the ancient brook, the brook Kison: my mighty soul will trample him down.
Judges 5 : 22 (LXXEN)
When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted
Judges 5 : 23 (LXXEN)
to curse Meroz: Curse ye it, said the angel of the Lord; cursed is every one that dwells in it, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to his help among the mighty.
Judges 5 : 24 (LXXEN)
Blessed among women be Jael wife of Chaber the Kenite; let her be blessed above women in tents.
Judges 5 : 25 (LXXEN)
He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; she brought butter of princes.
Judges 5 : 26 (LXXEN)
She stretched forth her left hand to *Or, pin of the tent the nail, and her right to the hand workman’s hammer, and she Lit. hammered smote Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and smote him; she nailed through his temples.
Judges 5 : 27 (LXXEN)
He rolled down between her feet; he fell and lay between her feet; he bowed and fell: where he bowed, there he fell *q. d., having departed this life dead.
Judges 5 : 28 (LXXEN)
The mother of Sisara looked down through the window out of the loophole, saying, Why was his chariot ashamed? why did the *Or, feet of his horses; lit., feet of his chariots wheels of his chariots tarry?
Judges 5 : 29 (LXXEN)
Her wise ladies answered her, and she returned answers to herself, saying,
Judges 5 : 30 (LXXEN)
Will they not find him dividing the spoil? he will surely *i. e., be gracious and kind in allowing the claim of each to his share be gracious to every man: there are spoils of dyed garments for Sisara, spoils of various dyed garments, dyed embroidered garments, they are the spoils for his neck.
Judges 5 : 31 (LXXEN)
Thus let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: and they that love him shall be as the going forth of the sun in his strength.
Judges 5 : 32 (LXXEN)
And the land had rest forty years.
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