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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
L
ORD
,
even
that Sinai from before the L
ORD
God of Israel.
6
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways.
7
The
inhabitants of
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
was
war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen
among forty thousand in Israel?
9
My heart
is
toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves
willingly among the people. Bless ye the L
ORD
.
10
Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in
judgment, and walk by the way.
11
They that are delivered
from the noise of archers in the places
of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the L
ORD
,
even
the righteous acts
toward the inhabitants
of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
made me have dominion over the mighty.
14
Out of Ephraim
was there
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
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.
16
Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds,
to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben
there were
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
were
a people
that
jeoparded their lives unto
the death in the high places of the field.
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.
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 L
ORD
, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not
to the help of the L
ORD
, to the help of the L
ORD
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,
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 she smote Sisera, she
smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
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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
so
long
in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
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Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned
answer to herself,
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Have they not sped? have they
not
divided the prey; to every 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?
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So let all thine
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