Judges 5
1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
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.
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.
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
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.
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 LORD.
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 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.
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 LORD 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 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.
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.
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.
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?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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?
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.
Cross-references
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- 1Exo 15:1, Rev 19:1–3, Isa 12:1–6, Psa 18:1, Rev 15:3–4, 1Sa 2:1, Exo 15:21, Luk 1:67–68
- 2Jdg 5:9, 2Ch 17:16, Psa 110:3, Php 2:13, Psa 136:15, Rev 19:2, Neh 11:2, 2Co 8:12
- 3Psa 138:4–5, Psa 2:10–12, Psa 49:1–2, Psa 119:46, Ezr 7:21, Gen 9:9, 1Ki 19:10, Lev 26:28
- 4Deu 33:2, Psa 77:17, Psa 68:7–8, Job 9:6, Psa 18:7–15, 2Sa 22:8, Hab 3:3–6
- 5Exo 19:18, Psa 97:5, Nam 1:5, Isa 64:1–3, Hab 3:10, Psa 68:8, Heb 12:18, Deu 4:11–12
- 6Isa 33:8, Jdg 3:31, Lev 26:22, Lam 1:4, Mic 3:12, Lam 4:18, 2Ch 15:5, Jdg 4:17–18
- 72Sa 20:19, Isa 49:23, Est 9:19, Jdg 4:4–6, Rom 16:13
- 8Deu 32:16–17, Jdg 2:12, Jdg 2:17, Jdg 4:3, 1Sa 13:19–22
- 9Jdg 5:2, 2Co 9:5, 2Co 8:3–4, 2Co 8:17, 2Co 8:12, 1Ch 29:9
- 10Jdg 12:14, Jdg 10:4, Psa 105:2, Isa 28:6, Psa 145:11, Psa 145:5, Psa 107:32, Jol 3:12
- 11Mic 6:5, Jdg 5:8, 1Sa 12:7, Deu 22:24, Lam 5:4, Jer 7:2, Lam 5:9, Isa 12:3
- 12Eph 4:8, Psa 68:18, Psa 57:8, 2Ti 2:26, Eph 5:14, 1Co 15:34, Psa 108:2, Isa 60:1
- 13Rev 2:26–27, Isa 41:15–16, Rom 8:37, Psa 75:7, Rev 3:9, Ezk 17:24, Dan 7:18–27, Psa 49:14
- 14Jdg 3:13, Jdg 12:15, Jdg 3:27, Num 32:39–40, Jdg 4:14, Jdg 4:10, Jdg 4:5–6, Exo 17:8–16
- 15Jdg 4:14, Jdg 4:10, 2Co 11:2, 1Ch 12:32, Jdg 4:6, Pro 22:13, Act 15:39, Act 20:13
- 16Num 32:24, Num 32:1–5, Jdg 5:15, Php 2:21, Psa 77:6, Php 3:19, Lam 3:40–41, Psa 4:4
- 17Jos 13:25, Jos 19:24–31, Jos 13:31
- 18Jdg 4:10, Jdg 4:6, Rev 12:11, Est 4:16, 1Jn 3:16, Jdg 4:14, Act 20:24
- 19Jdg 5:30, Jdg 1:27, 1Ki 4:12, Jos 10:22–27, Gen 4:16, Psa 48:4–6, Jos 11:1–15, Psa 44:12
- 20Jos 10:11, Psa 77:17–18, 1Sa 7:10, Jdg 4:15
- 21Jdg 4:7, Mic 7:10, Psa 44:5, Isa 25:10, Jdg 4:13, Gen 49:18, 1Ki 18:40, Psa 83:9–10
- 22Isa 5:28, Psa 33:17, Psa 20:7, Jer 47:4, Mic 4:13, Psa 147:10–11
- 23Jer 48:10, 1Co 16:22, 1Co 3:9, Jdg 21:9–10, 1Sa 26:19, Rom 15:18, Jdg 2:1, 1Sa 17:47
- 24Luk 1:42, Luk 1:28, Jdg 4:17, Gen 14:19, Pro 31:31
- 25Jdg 4:19–21
- 261Sa 17:49–51, Jdg 4:21, 2Sa 20:22
- 27Psa 52:7, Jas 2:13, Mat 7:2
- 28Jas 5:7, Sng 2:9, Sng 8:14, 2Ki 1:2, Pro 7:6, Jdg 4:15
- 30Exo 15:9, Psa 45:14, 2Sa 13:18, Gen 37:3, Job 20:5
- 31Psa 37:6, 2Sa 23:4, 1Co 8:3, 1Pe 1:8, Psa 19:4–5, Jas 1:12, Psa 91:14, Jas 2:5
Topics in this chapter
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Archery, Armies, Art, Asher, Ass (Donkey), Barak, Benjamin, Butter, Captivity, Chiding, Country, Curse, Dan, Deborah, Embroidery, Epic, Forty, God, Heber, House, Intercession, Israel, Issachar, Jael, Joy, Judge, Kishon, Lukewarmness, Megiddo, Meroz, Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena, Milk, Money, Mountain, Music, Naphtali, Patriotism, Pen, Poetry, Praise, Psalms, Reubenites, Righteous, Servant, Shamgar, Sisera, Song, Sun, Taanach, Thankfulness, Victories, Volcanoes, Women, Zebulun