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lesserot@Judges:5:1 @ Then sang Deborah with Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

lesserot@Judges:5:2 @ When depravity had broken out in Israel, then did the people offer themselves willingly; praise ye the Lord.

lesserot@Judges:5:3 @ Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; Iunto the Lord will I sing; I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.

lesserot@Judges:5:4 @ Lord, at thy going forth out of Seir, at thy marching along out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, also the clouds dropped water.

lesserot@Judges:5:5 @ The mountains melted away because of the presence of the Lord, yonder Sinai, because of the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.

lesserot@Judges:5:6 @ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and those who travelled on roads walked through crooked bypaths.

lesserot@Judges:5:7 @ Desolate were the open towns in Israel, they were desolate, until that I arose, Deborah, that I arose a mother in Israel.

lesserot@Judges:5:8 @ They chose new gods, then was there war in the gates: was there a shield seen or a spear among forty thousand in Israel?

lesserot@Judges:5:9 @ My heart to the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people: praise ye the Lord.

lesserot@Judges:5:10 @ Ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and ye who walk on the way, utter praise!

lesserot@Judges:5:11 @ by the voice of those who divide between the watering wells, there shall they rehearse the benefits of the Lord, the benefits toward his open towns in Israel; now go down to the gates the people of the Lord.

lesserot@Judges:5:12 @ Awake, awake, Deborah! awake, awake, utter a song! up, Barak, and lead away thy captives, son of Abinoam.

lesserot@Judges:5:13 @ Then obtained dominion a few that had escaped for the nobles among the peoplethe Lord gave me dominion over the mighty.

lesserot@Judges:5:14 @ They whose root is out of Ephraim were against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, with thy armies; out of Machir came down lawgivers, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

lesserot@Judges:5:15 @ And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; yea Issachar, the support of Barak; into the valley he hastened down in his train; at the streams of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.

lesserot@Judges:5:16 @ Why didst thou sit among the sheepfolds to hear the bleatings of the flocks? At the streams of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

lesserot@Judges:5:17 @ Gilad abode beyond the Jordan; and Danwhy would he tarry in ships? Asher remained on the seashore, and abode near his bays.

lesserot@Judges:5:18 @ Zebulun is a people that jeoparded its life unto death, and Naphtalion the high places of the field.

lesserot@Judges:5:19 @ There came kings, fought, then fought the kings of Canaan, in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: gain of money they took not away.

lesserot@Judges:5:20 @ From heaven they foughtthe stars in their courses fought against Sissera.

lesserot@Judges:5:21 @ The stream of Kishon swept them away, that ancient stream, the stream of Kishon: step along, O my soul, in victorious strength.

lesserot@Judges:5:22 @ Then were crushed the hoofs of the horses, through the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.

lesserot@Judges:5:23 @ Curse ye Meroz, saith the messenger of the Lord, yea, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the mighty.

lesserot@Judges:5:24 @ Blessed above women shall be Jael the wife of Cheber the Kenite, above women in the tent may she be blessed.

lesserot@Judges:5:25 @ Water he asked, milk she gave: in a lordly dish she brought him cream.

lesserot@Judges:5:26 @ Her hand she put forth to the nail, and her right hand to the laborious workmens hammer; and she hammered Sissera, she struck his head, and crushed and smote through his temple.

lesserot@Judges:5:27 @ Between her feet he bent, he fell, he lay; between her feet he bent, he fell: where he had bent, there he fell down, bereft of life.

lesserot@Judges:5:28 @ Out of the window looked and moaned the mother of Sissera, through the lattice, Why tarrieth his chariot so long in coming? why lag the wheels of his chariot?

lesserot@Judges:5:29 @ The wise among her ladies answered her, she also returned a reply to herself.

lesserot@Judges:5:30 @ Will they not find,divide booty? one maiden, two maidens for every man, a booty of colored garments for Sissera, a booty of colored embroidered garments, colored, doubleworked garments round the necks of the captives!

lesserot@Judges:5:31 @ Thus may perish all thy enemies, O Lord; but may those that love him be as the rising of the sun in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

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