CLV(i)
1 And Deborah sings--also Barak son of Abinoam--on that day, saying:-.
2 `For freeing freemen in Israel, For a people willingly offering themselves Bless you Yahweh.
3 Hear, you kings; give ear, you princes, I, to Yahweh, I--I do sing, I sing praise to Yahweh, Elohim of Israel.
4 Yahweh, in Your going forth out of Seir, In Your stepping out of the field of Edom, Earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, Also thick clouds dropped water.
5 Hills flowed from the face of Yahweh, This one--Sinai--From the face of Yahweh, Elohim of Israel.
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.
7 Villages ceased in Israel--they ceased, Till that I arose--Deborah, That I arose, a mother in Israel.
8 He chooses new elohims, Then war [is] at the gates! A shield is not seen--and a spear Among forty thousand in Israel.
9 My heart [is] to the lawgivers of Israel, Who are offering themselves willingly among the people, Bless you Yahweh!"
10 Riders on white asses--Sitters on a long robe--And walkers by the way--meditate!
11 By the voice of shouters Between the places of drawing water, There they give out righteous acts of Yahweh, Righteous acts of His villages in Israel, Then ruled in the gates have the people of Yahweh.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song; Rise, Barak, and take captive your captivity, Son of Abinoam.
13 Then him who is left of the honorable ones He caused to rule the people of Yahweh, He caused me to rule among the mighty.
14 Out of Ephraim their root [is] against Amalek. After you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Out of Machir came down lawgivers, And out of Zebulun those drawing with the reed of a writer.
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!"
16 Why have you abode between the boundaries, To hear lowings of herds? For the divisions of Reuben, Great [are] the searchings of heart!"
17 Gilead beyond the Jordan did tabernacle, And Dan--why does he sojourn [in] ships? Asher has abode at the haven of the seas, And by his creeks does tabernacle.
18 Zebulun [is] a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also--on high places of the field.
19 Kings came--they fought; Then fought kings of Canaan, In Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; Gain of money they took not!"
20 From the heavens they fought:The stars from their highways fought with Sisera.
21 The brook Kishon swept them away, The brook most ancient--the brook Kishon. You do tread down strength, O my soul!"
22 Then broken were the horse-heels, By pransings--pransings of its mighty ones.
23 Curse Meroz--said a messenger of Yahweh, Cursing, curse you its inhabitants, For they came not to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh among the mighty!"
24 Blessed above women is Jael, Wife of Heber the Kenite, Above women in the tent she is blessed.
25 Water he asked--milk she gave; In a lordly dish she brought near butter.
26 Her hand to the pin she sends forth, And her right hand to the laborers' hammer, And she hammered Sisera--she smote his head, Yea, she smote, and it passed through his temple.
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.
28 Through the window she has looked out--Yea, she cries out--the mother of Sisera, Through the lattice:Wherefore is his chariot delaying to come? Wherefore tarried have the steps of his chariot?
29 The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, Yea, she returns her sayings to herself.
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!"
31 So do all Your enemies perish, O Yahweh, And those loving Him [are] As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land rests forty years.