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Praise And Honor Ascribed To YAHWEH
1 ¶ Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
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2 Praise you YAHWEH for the avenging of Yisrael, when the people willingly offered themselves.
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3 Hear, O you kings; give ear, O you princes; I, even I, will sing to YAHWEH; I will sing [praise] to YAHWEH the Sovereign Ruler of Yisrael.
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4 YAHWEH, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
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5 The mountains melted from before YAHWEH, even that Sinai from before YAHWEH the Sovereign Ruler of Yisrael.
The Distress And Deliverance Of Yisrae
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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.
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7 [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Yisrael, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Yisrael.
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8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Yisrael?
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9 My heart is toward the governors of Yisrael, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless you YAHWEH.
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10 Speak, you that ride on white asses, you that sit in raiment, and walk by the way.
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11 [They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of YAHWEH, even the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Yisrael: then shall the people of YAHWEH go down to the gates.
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12 ¶ Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead your captivity captive, you son of Abinoam.
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13 Then he made him that remains have dominion over the nobles among the people: YAHWEH made me have dominion over the mighty.
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14 Out of Ephraim [was there] a root of them against Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
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15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great thoughts of heart.
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16 Why abode you among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great searchings of heart.
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17 Gilead abode beyond Yardan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
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18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives to the death in the high places of the field.
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19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
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20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
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21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you have trodden down strength.
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22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
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23 Curse you Meroz, said the malak of YAHWEH, curse you bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of YAHWEH, to the help of YAHWEH against the mighty.
Sisera's Mother Disappointed
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24 ¶ Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
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25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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30 Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every valiant warrior a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?
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31 So let all your enemies perish, O YAHWEH: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.