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ULT JDG Chapter 5

5 So Deborah sang with Barak, the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying:

2 “When long hair flowed freely in Israel, as people enlisted themselves willingly, everyone bless Yahweh!

3 Hear, O kings! Give ear, O rulers! I, unto Yahweh, even I, I will sing, I will make music unto Yahweh, the God of Israel.

4 Yahweh, because of your going forth out of Seir,

because of your marching out of the open land of Edom,

the earth quaked, the heavens also dripped,

also the dark clouds dripped down water.

5 Mountains flowed because of the presence of Yahweh,

this Sinai, because of the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

6 In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath,

in the days of Jael, main roads were abandoned,

and walkers of footpaths would walk crooked paths.

7 Rural people ceased to be in Israel,

they ceased to be until when I arose, Deborah, when I arose, a mother in Israel!

8 When he chose new gods,

then there was fighting at the city gates,

neither shield nor spear was seen

among forty thousand in Israel.

9 My heart is alongside those pledging order in Israel,

those freely enlisting themselves among the people.

Everyone bless Yahweh!

10 Riding on white donkeys,

sitting on carpets,

or walking along a road, sing of this,

11 louder than the sound of those distributing water from watering places.

There they continuously celebrate the righteous deeds of Yahweh,

the righteous actions of his rural people in Israel.

Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

12 Awake, awake, Deborah!

Awake, awake, utter a song!

Arise, Barak, and lead away captive your prisoner, the son of Abinoam.

13 Then a survivor prevails over nobles,

the people of Yahweh prevail at my side against the warriors.

14 From Ephraim, their root was against Amalek;

after you, Benjamin, among your peoples.

From Machir those with resolve came down,

and from Zebulun those who wield the scepter of a scribe.

15 My princes in Issachar were with Deborah;

and Issachar was also with Barak

into a plain he was sent out on his feet.

Among the divisions of Reuben

there were great resolutions of heart.

16 Why did you sit among the campfires,

in order to hear signaling for flocks?

As for the divisions of Reuben

there were great resolutions of heart.

17 Gilead settled in the region beyond the Jordan;

but Dan, why does he sojourn on ships?

Asher dwelt at the coast of the seas

and he resides along his harbors.

18 Zebulun was a people willfully scorning its soul even to death,

also Naphtali on the elevated places of the battlefield.

19 Kings came, they did battle;

at that time the kings of Canaan did battle at Taanach

along the waters of Megiddo.

Plunder of silver they did not take.

20 From the heavens the stars did battle,

from their courses they did battle against Sisera.

21 The Kishon River swept them away,

the ancient river, the Kishon River.

Tread on, O my soul, in strength!

22 Then hooves of a horse beat down,

from rushing, the rushing of his valiant ones.

23 ‘Curse Meroz!’ said the messenger of Yahweh.

‘You shall surely curse those dwelling in it,

because they did not come to the aid of Yahweh—

to the aid of Yahweh against the mighty men.’

24 Jael is most blessed of women,

the wife of Heber, the Kenite,

out of women in the tent she is blessed.

25 Water he requested, milk she gave, in a bowl suitable for nobles,

she brought curdled milk.

26 They reached out, her hand to the tent peg,

and her right hand to a hammer of workmen;

she struck Sisera, she shattered his head.

She struck through and she pierced his temple.

27 Between her feet, he bowed, he fell, he lay down.

Between her feet he bowed, he fell;

at the place where he bowed, there he fell violently destroyed.

28 Through the window she had looked down and lamented,

the mother of Sisera through the lattice window.

‘Why has his chariot delayed in coming?

Why are the hoofbeats of his chariots late?’

29 The wisest of her princesses answered,

yet she continued her utterance to herself:

30 ‘Are they not finding, are they dividing up spoil,

a maiden, two maidens for every warrior,

spoil of dyed fabrics for Sisera,

spoil of dyed fabrics, embroidered,

dyed fabric embroidered on both sides for the necks as spoil?’

31 So may all of your enemies perish, Yahweh!

But may those who love him be as the coming forth of the sun in its strength.”

Then the land was tranquil forty years.

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