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  • Book: 7

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    {Judges 5:1} Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:2} Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:3} Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, [even] I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing [praise] to the LORD God of Israel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:4} LORD, 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:5} The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:6} In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:7} [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:8} They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:9} My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:10} Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:11} [They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:12} Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:13} Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:14} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:15} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:16} Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great searchings of heart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:17} Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:18} Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:19} The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:20} They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:21} The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:22} Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:23} Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:24} Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:25} He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:26} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:27} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:28} 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? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:29} Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:30} 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? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

    {Judges 5:31} So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

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