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# Chapter 5
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1 On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang:
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2 When the leaders lead in Israel,
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when the people volunteer,
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blessed be the Lord.
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3 Listen, kings! Pay attention, princes!
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I will sing to the Lord;
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I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
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4 Lord, when you came from Seir,
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when you marched from the fields of Edom,
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the earth trembled,
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the skies poured rain,
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and the clouds poured water.
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5 The mountains melted before the Lord,
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even Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.
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6 In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
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in the days of Jael,
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the main roads were deserted
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because travelers kept to the side roads.
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7 Villages were deserted,
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they were deserted in Israel,
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until I, Deborah, arose,
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a mother in Israel.
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8 Israel chose new gods,
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then there was war in the city gates.
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Not a shield or spear was seen
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among forty thousand in Israel.
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9 My heart is with the leaders of Israel,
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with the volunteers of the people.
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Blessed be the Lord!
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10 You who ride on white donkeys,
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who sit on saddle blankets,
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and who travel on the road, give praise!
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11 Let them tell the righteous acts of the Lord,
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the righteous deeds of his villagers in Israel,
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with the voices of the singers at the watering places.
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Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates.
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12 “Awake! Awake, Deborah!
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Awake! Awake, sing a song!
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Arise, Barak,
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and take your prisoners,
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son of Abinoam!”
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13 Then the survivors came down to the nobles;
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the Lord’s people came down to me against the warriors.
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14 Those with their roots in Amalek came from Ephraim;
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Benjamin came with your people after you.
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The leaders came down from Machir,
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and those who carry a marshal’s staff came from Zebulun.
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15 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
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Issachar was with Barak;
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they were under his leadership in the valley.
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There was great searching of heart
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among the clans of Reuben.
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16 Why did you sit among the sheep pens
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listening to the playing of pipes for the flocks?
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There was great searching of heart
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among the clans of Reuben.
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17 Gilead remained beyond the Jordan.
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Dan, why did you linger at the ships?
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Asher remained at the seashore
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and stayed in his harbors.
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18 The people of Zebulun defied death,
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Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.
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19 Kings came and fought.
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Then the kings of Canaan fought
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at Taanach by the Waters of Megiddo,
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but they did not plunder the silver.
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20 The stars fought from the heavens;
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the stars fought with Sisera from their paths.
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21 The river Kishon swept them away,
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the ancient river, the river Kishon.
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March on, my soul, in strength!
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22 The horses’ hooves then hammered—
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the galloping, galloping of his stallions.
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23 “Curse Meroz,” says the angel of the Lord,
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“Bitterly curse her inhabitants,
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for they did not come to help the Lord,
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to help the Lord with the warriors.”
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24 Most blessed of women is Jael,
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the wife of Heber the Kenite;
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she is most blessed among tent-dwelling women.
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25 He asked for water; she gave him milk.
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She brought him cream in a majestic bowl.
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26 She reached for a tent peg,
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her right hand, for a workman’s hammer.
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Then she hammered Sisera—
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she crushed his head;
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she shattered and pierced his temple.
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27 He collapsed, he fell, he lay down between her feet;
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he collapsed, he fell between her feet;
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where he collapsed, there he fell—dead.
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28 Sisera’s mother looked through the window;
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she peered through the lattice, crying out:
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“Why is his chariot so long in coming?
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Why don’t I hear the hoofbeats of his horses?”
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29 Her wisest princesses answer her;
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she even answers herself:
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30 “Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—
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a girl or two for each warrior,
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the spoil of colored garments for Sisera,
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the spoil of an embroidered garment or two for my neck?”
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31 Lord, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did.
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But may those who love him
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be like the rising of the sun in its strength.
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And the land had peace for forty years. |