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* Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam #Abiyno #am # on that day , saying , * Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel Yisra #el #, when the people willingly offered themselves . * 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 Yisra #el #. * LORD , when thou wentest out of Seir Se #iyr #, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom , the earth trembled , and the heavens dropped , the clouds also dropped water . * The mountains melted from before the LORD , even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #. * In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath , in the days of Jael Ya #el #, the highways were unoccupied , and the travellers walked through byways #H5410 . * The inhabitants of the villages ceased , they ceased in Israel Yisra #el #, until that I Deborah arose , that I arose a mother in Israel Yisra #el #. * They chose new gods ; then was war in the gates sha #ar #: was there a shield or spear seen among forty #arba #iym # thousand in Israel Yisra #el #? * My heart is toward the governors of Israel Yisra #el #, that offered themselves willingly among the people . Bless ye the LORD . * Speak , ye that ride on white asses , ye that sit in judgment , and walk by the way . * They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water mash #ab #, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD , even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel Yisra #el #: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates sha #ar #. * Awake , awake , Deborah : awake , awake , utter a song : arise , Barak , and lead thy captivity captive , thou son of Abinoam #Abiyno #am #. * Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people : the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty . * 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 . * 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 . * Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds , to hear the bleatings of the flocks ? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart . * Gilead abode beyond Jordan : and why did Dan remain in ships ? Asher continued on the sea shore , and abode in his breaches . * Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field . * The kings came and fought , then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo ; they took no gain of money . * They fought from heaven ; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera . * The river of Kishon swept them away , that ancient river , the river Kishon . O my soul , thou hast trodden down strength . * Then were the horsehoofs #H5483broken by the means of the pransings , the praings of their mighty ones . * 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 . * Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be , blessed shall she be above women in the tent . * He asked water , and she gave him milk ; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish . * She put her hand to the nail , and her right hand to the workmens hammer ; and with the hammer she smote Sisera , she smote off his head ro #sh #, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples . * 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 . * 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 ? * Her wise ladies answered her , yea , she returned answer to herself , * 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 ? * 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 #arba #iym # years .

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