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ylt @Judges:5:1 @And Deborah singeth -- also Barak son of Abinoam -- on that day , saying : -- ylt @Judges:5:2 @'For freeing freemen in Israel , For a people willingly offering themselves Bless ye Jehovah . ylt @Judges:5:3 @Hear , ye kings ; give ear , ye princes , I , to Jehovah , I -- I do sing , I sing praise to Jehovah , God of Israel . ylt @Judges:5:4 @Jehovah , in Thy going forth out of Seir , In Thy stepping out of the field of Edom , Earth trembled , also the heavens dropped , Also thick clouds dropped water . ylt @Judges:5:5 @Hills flowed from the face of Jehovah , This one -- Sinai -- From the face of Jehovah , God of Israel . ylt @Judges:5:6 @In the days of Shamgar son of Anath -- In the days of Jael -- The ways have ceased , And those going in the paths go [in ] crooked ways . ylt @Judges:5:7 @Villages ceased in Israel -- they ceased , Till that I arose -- Deborah , That I arose , a mother in Israel . ylt @Judges:5:8 @He chooseth new gods , Then war [is ] at the gates ! A shield is not seen -- and a spear Among forty thousand in Israel . ylt @Judges:5:9 @My heart [is ] to the lawgivers of Israel , Who are offering themselves willingly among the people , Bless ye Jehovah ! ylt @Judges:5:10 @Riders on white asses -- Sitters on a long robe -- And walkers by the way -- meditate ! ylt @Judges:5:11 @By the voice of shouters Between the places of drawing water , There they give out righteous acts of Jehovah , Righteous acts of His villages in Israel , Then ruled in the gates have the people of Jehovah . ylt @Judges:5:12 @Awake , awake , Deborah ; Awake , awake , utter a song ; Rise , Barak , and take captive thy captivity , Son of Abinoam . ylt @Judges:5:13 @Then him who is left of the honourable ones He caused to rule the people of Jehovah , He caused me to rule among the mighty . ylt @Judges:5:14 @Out of Ephraim their root [is ] against Amalek . After thee , Benjamin , among thy peoples . Out of Machir came down lawgivers , And out of Zebulun those drawing with the reed of a writer . ylt @Judges:5:15 @And princes in Issachar [are ] with Deborah , Yea , Issachar [is ] right with Barak , Into the valley he was sent on his feet . In the divisions of Reuben , Great [are ] the decrees of heart ! ylt @Judges:5:16 @Why hast thou abode between the boundaries , To hear lowings of herds ? For the divisions of Reuben , Great [are ] the searchings of heart ! ylt @Judges:5:17 @Gilead beyond the Jordan did tabernacle , And Dan -- why doth he sojourn [in ] ships ? Asher hath abode at the haven of the seas , And by his creeks doth tabernacle . ylt @Judges:5:18 @Zebulun [is ] a people who exposed its soul to death , Naphtali also -- on high places of the field . ylt @Judges:5:19 @Kings came -- they fought ; Then fought kings of Canaan , In Taanach , by the waters of Megiddo ; Gain of money they took not ! ylt @Judges:5:20 @From the heavens they fought : The stars from their highways fought with Sisera . ylt @Judges:5:21 @The brook Kishon swept them away , The brook most ancient -- the brook Kishon . Thou dost tread down strength , O my soul ! ylt @Judges:5:22 @Then broken were the horse-heels , By pransings -- pransings of its mighty ones . ylt @Judges:5:23 @Curse Meroz -- said a messenger of Jehovah , Cursing , curse ye its inhabitants , For they came not to the help of Jehovah , To the help of Jehovah among the mighty ! ylt @Judges:5:24 @Blessed above women is Jael , Wife of Heber the Kenite , Above women in the tent she is blessed . ylt @Judges:5:25 @Water he asked -- milk she gave ; In a lordly dish she brought near butter . ylt @Judges:5:26 @Her hand to the pin she sendeth forth , And her right hand to the labourers ' hammer , And she hammered Sisera -- she smote his head , Yea , she smote , and it passed through his temple . ylt @Judges:5:27 @Between her feet he bowed -- He fell , he lay down ; Between her feet he bowed , he fell ; Where he bowed , there he fell -- destroyed . ylt @Judges:5:28 @Through the window she hath looked out -- Yea , she crieth out -- the mother of Sisera , Through the lattice : Wherefore is his chariot delaying to come ? Wherefore tarried have the steps of his chariot ? ylt @Judges:5:29 @The wise ones , her princesses , answer her , Yea , she returneth her sayings to herself : ylt @Judges:5:30 @Do they not find ? -- they apportion spoil , A female -- two females -- for every head , Spoil of finger-work for Sisera , Spoil of embroidered finger-work , Finger-work -- a pair of embroidered things , For the necks of the spoil ! ylt @Judges:5:31 @So do all Thine enemies perish , O Jehovah , And those loving Him [are ] As the going out of the sun in its might !' and the land resteth forty years .

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