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1Then Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day,[#Ex 15.1]
2“When locks are long in Israel,[#Deut 32.43]
when the people offer themselves willingly—
bless the Lord !
3Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;[#Ps 27.6]
to the Lord I will sing;
I will make melody to the Lord , the God of Israel.
4Lord , when you went out from Seir,[#Deut 33.2; Ps 68.7–9]
when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled,
and the heavens poured;
the clouds indeed poured water.
5The mountains quaked before the Lord , the One of Sinai,[#Ps 68.8; 97.5; Isa 64.1, 3]
before the Lord , the God of Israel.
6In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,[#Judg 3.31; 4.17]
in the days of Jael, caravans ceased,
and travelers kept to the byways.
7The peasantry prospered in Israel;
they grew fat on plunder,
because you arose, Deborah,
arose as a mother in Israel.
8When new gods were chosen,[#Deut 32.17]
then war was in the gates.
Was shield or spear to be seen
among forty thousand in Israel?
9My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
who offered themselves willingly among the people.
Bless the Lord .
10Sing of it, you who ride on white donkeys,
you who sit on rich carpets,
and you who walk by the way.
11To the sound of musicians at the watering places,[#1 Sam 12.7; Mic 6.5; #5.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord ,
the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel.
Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord .
12Awake, awake, Deborah![#Ps 57.8; 68.18]
Awake, awake, utter a song!
Arise, Barak, lead away your captives,
O son of Abinoam.
13Then down marched the remnant of the nobles;
the people of the Lord marched down for him against the mighty.
14From Ephraim they set out into the valley,[#Num 32.39; Judg 3.13, 27; #5.14 Cn: Heb From Ephraim their root; #5.14 Gk: Heb in Amalek]
following you, Benjamin, with your kin;
from Machir marched down the commanders,
and from Zebulun those who bear the marshal’s staff;
15the chiefs of Issachar came with Deborah,[#Judg 4.10]
and Issachar faithful to Barak;
into the valley they rushed out at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
16Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds,[#Num 32.1]
to hear the piping for the flocks?
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
17Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan,[#Josh 13.24–28; 19.29, 46]
and Dan, why did he abide with the ships?
Asher sat still at the coast of the sea,
settling down by his landings.
18Zebulun is a people that scorned death;[#Judg 4.6, 10]
Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.
19The kings came; they fought;[#Josh 11.1, 2; Judg 1.27]
then fought the kings of Canaan,
at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;
they got no spoils of silver.
20The stars fought from heaven;[#Josh 10.11–14]
from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21The torrent Kishon swept them away,[#Judg 4.7]
the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon.
March on, my soul, with might!
22Then loud beat the horses’ hoofs
with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.
23Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord ;
curse bitterly its inhabitants,
because they did not come to the help of the Lord ,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
24Most blessed of women be Jael,[#Judg 4.17, 19–21]
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
25Water he asked, milk she gave;[#Judg 4.19]
she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.
26She put her hand to the tent peg[#Judg 4.21]
and her right hand to the workers’ mallet;
she struck Sisera a blow;
she crushed his head;
she shattered and pierced his temple.
27Between her feet he sank, he fell,
he lay still;
between her feet he sank, he fell;
where he sank, there he fell dead.
28Out of the window she peered;[#Prov 7.6]
the mother of Sisera gazed through the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
29Her wisest ladies make answer;
indeed, she answers the question herself:
30‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?[#Ex 15.9]
A woman or two for every man;
spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera,
spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’
31So perish all your enemies, O Lord ![#Judg 3.11; Ps 19.4, 5; 68.2; 92.9]
But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.”
And the land had rest forty years.