Judges 5 — YLT

5Verse 1And Deborah singeth — also Barak son of Abinoam — on that day, saying: —^{Verse 2}'For freeing freemen in Israel, For a people willingly offering themselves Bless ye Jehovah.^{Verse 3}Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, to Jehovah, I — I do sing, I sing praise to Jehovah, God of Israel.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 5}Hills flowed from the face of Jehovah, This one — Sinai — From the face of Jehovah, God of Israel.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 7}Villages ceased in Israel — they ceased, Till that I arose — Deborah, That I arose, a mother in Israel.^{Verse 8}He chooseth new gods, Then war [is] at the gates! A shield is not seen — and a spear Among forty thousand in Israel.^{Verse 9}My heart [is] to the lawgivers of Israel, Who are offering themselves willingly among the people, Bless ye Jehovah!^{Verse 10}Riders on white asses — Sitters on a long robe — And walkers by the way — meditate!^{Verse 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.^{Verse 12}Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song; Rise, Barak, and take captive thy captivity, Son of Abinoam.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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!^{Verse 16}Why hast thou abode between the boundaries, To hear lowings of herds? For the divisions of Reuben, Great [are] the searchings of heart!^{Verse 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.^{Verse 18}Zebulun [is] a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also — on high places of the field.^{Verse 19}Kings came — they fought; Then fought kings of Canaan, In Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; Gain of money they took not!^{Verse 20}From the heavens they fought: The stars from their highways fought with Sisera.^{Verse 21}The brook Kishon swept them away, The brook most ancient — the brook Kishon. Thou dost tread down strength, O my soul!^{Verse 22}Then broken were the horse-heels, By pransings — pransings of its mighty ones.^{Verse 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!^{Verse 24}Blessed above women is Jael, Wife of Heber the Kenite, Above women in the tent she is blessed.^{Verse 25}Water he asked — milk she gave; In a lordly dish she brought near butter.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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?^{Verse 29}The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, Yea, she returneth her sayings to herself:^{Verse 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!^{Verse 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.