Judges 5

Judges Chapter 5 KJV

The song of Deborah and Barak.
1 Then 1sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 1Praise ye the Lord for the 2avenging of Israel, when the people 3willingly offered themselves.
3 Hear, 1O ye kings; give ear, O ye 2princes; 3I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
4 Lord, 1when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, 2the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5 The 1mountains amelted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
6 In the days of 1Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the atravellers walked through bbyways.
7 the inhabitants of 1the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a 2mother in Israel.
8 They 1chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was 2there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that 1offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.
10 aSpeak, ye 1that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
11 they that are delivered from 1the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the arighteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord 2go down to the gates.
12 Awake, 1awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and 2lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13 Then 1he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
14 1Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against 2Amalek; 3after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of 4Machir came down 5governors, and out of Zebulun they that ahandle the pen of the writer.
15 And the 1princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also 2Barak: he was sent on afoot into the valley. For bthe divisions of Reuben there were great cthoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou 1among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? aFor the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17 1Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did 2Dan remain in ships? 3Asher continued on the sea ashore, and abode in his bbreaches.
18 1Zebulun and Naphtali were a people 2that ajeoparded their lives unto the death in 3the high places of the field.
19 The 1kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in 2Taanach by the waters of 3Megiddo; 4they took no gain of money.
20 They 1fought from heaven; the stars in their acourses fought against Sisera.
21 The 1river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. 2O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
22 Then 1were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the apransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the 1angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they 2came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
24 1Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25 1He 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 ashe smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
27 aAt her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down bdead.
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 aanswer to herself,
30 1Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to aevery 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 1let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them 2that love him be as the sun 3when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest 4forty years.
Judges 5