geneva@Judges:5:1 @ Then sang Deborah, and Barak the sonne of Abinoam the same day, saying,
geneva@Judges:5:2 @ Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the (note:)That is, the two tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali.(:note) people willingly offered themselves.
geneva@Judges:5:3 @ Heare, ye Kings, hearken ye princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord: I will sing praise vnto the Lord God of Israel.
geneva@Judges:5:4 @ Lorde, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens rained, the cloudes also dropped water.
geneva@Judges:5:5 @ The mountaines melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel.
geneva@Judges:5:6 @ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were (note:)For fear of the enemies.(:note) unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
geneva@Judges:5:7 @ [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a (note:)Miraculously stirred up by God to pity them and deliver them.(:note) mother in Israel.
geneva@Judges:5:8 @ They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a (note:)They had no heart to resist their enemies.(:note) shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
geneva@Judges:5:9 @ Mine heart is set on the gouernours of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.
geneva@Judges:5:10 @ Speak, ye that ride on (note:)You governors.(:note) white asses, ye that sit Or by Middin, as in danger of your enemies. in judgment, and walk by the way.
geneva@Judges:5:11 @ For the noyse of the archers appaised among the drawers of water: there shal they rehearse the righteousnesse of the Lorde, his righteousnesse of his townes in Israel: then did the people of the Lord goe downe to the gates.
geneva@Judges:5:12 @ Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead (note:)That is, they who kept your people in captivity.(:note) thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
geneva@Judges:5:13 @ For they that remaine, haue dominio ouer the mightie of the people: the Lorde hath giuen me dominion ouer the strong.
geneva@Judges:5:14 @ Out of Ephraim (note:)Joshua first fought against Amalek, and Saul destroyed him.(:note) [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.
geneva@Judges:5:15 @ And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even (note:)Even the whole tribe.(:note) Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great They marvelled that they did not cross the Jordan to help them. thoughts of heart.
geneva@Judges:5:16 @ Why abodest thou among the sheepefolds, to heare the bleatings of the flockes? for the diuisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart.
geneva@Judges:5:18 @ But the people of Zebulun and Naphtali haue ieopard their liues vnto the death in the hie places of the field.
geneva@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 (note:)They won nothing, but lost all.(:note) money.
geneva@Judges:5:20 @ They fought from heauen, euen the starres in their courses fought against Sisera.
geneva@Judges:5:21 @ The river of Kishon (note:)As a broom does to the filth of the house.(:note) swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
geneva@Judges:5:22 @ Then were the horsehooues broken with the oft beating together of their mightie men.
geneva@Judges:5:23 @ Curse ye (note:)It was a city near Tabor, where they fought.(:note) 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.
geneva@Judges:5:24 @ Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite shall be blessed aboue other women: blessed shall she be aboue women dwelling in tentes.
geneva@Judges:5:25 @ He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth (note:)Some read churned milk in a great cup.(:note) butter in a lordly dish.
geneva@Judges:5:26 @ She put her hand to the naile, & her right hand to the workemans hammer: with the hammer smote she Sisera: she smote off his head, after she had wounded, and pearsed his temples.
geneva@Judges:5:27 @ He bowed him downe at her feete, he fell downe, and lay still: at her feete hee bowed him downe, and fell: and when he had sunke downe, he lay there dead.
geneva@Judges:5:28 @ The mother of Sisera looked out at a windowe, and cryed thorowe the lattesse, Why is his charet so long a comming? why tary the wheeles of his charets?
geneva@Judges:5:29 @ Her wise ladies answered her, yea, (note:)That is, she comforted herself.(:note) she returned answer to herself,
geneva@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] (note:)Because he was chief of the army.(:note) for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?
geneva@Judges:5:31 @ So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the (note:)Shall grow daily more and more in God's favour.(:note) sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.