# Judges 5 [[Judges 4|←]] • [[Judges 6|→]] --- ### 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, I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing 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, 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 villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. ### 8 They chose new gods; then war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? ### 9 My heart 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 from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, the righteous acts 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 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 with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben great thoughts of heart. ### 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben 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 a people jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. ### 19 The kings came 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, she gave 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 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 divided the prey; to every man a damsel two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, for the necks of the spoil? ### 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but them that love him as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.