Judges Chapter 5
5:1 | Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that ![]() |
5:2 | Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of ![]() |
5:3 | Hear, O ye ![]() ![]() |
5:4 | LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5:5 | The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai from before the LORD God of ![]() |
5:6 | In the ![]() ![]() |
5:7 | [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in ![]() ![]() |
5:8 | They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in ![]() |
5:9 | My heart [is] toward the governors of ![]() |
5:10 | Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. |
5:11 | [They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing ![]() ![]() |
5:12 | Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. |
5:13 | Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. |
5:14 | 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. |
5:15 | And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on ![]() |
5:16 | Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great searchings of heart. |
5:17 | Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. |
5:18 | Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto the ![]() |
5:19 | The ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5:20 | They fought from heaven; the ![]() |
5:21 | The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. |
5:22 | Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones. |
5:23 | 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. |
5:24 | Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. |
5:25 | He asked ![]() ![]() |
5:26 | She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen' hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. |
5:27 | At her ![]() ![]() |
5:28 | The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his ![]() ![]() |
5:29 | Her wise ladies answered her, ![]() ![]() |
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] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil? |
5:31 | So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the ![]() |