Juízes 5

¹ Then sang Deborah, and Barak the sonne of Abinoam the same day, saying,

² Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when theThat is, the two tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali.people willingly offered themselves.

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.

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.

⁵ The mountaines melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel.

⁶ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways wereFor fear of the enemies.unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

⁷ [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose aMiraculously stirred up by God to pity them and deliver them.mother in Israel.

⁸ They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there aThey had no heart to resist their enemies.shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

⁹ Mine heart is set on the gouernours of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.

¹⁰ Speak, ye that ride onYou governors.white asses, ye that sitOr by Middin, as in danger of your enemies.in judgment, and walk by the way.

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.

¹² Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and leadThat is, they who kept your people in captivity.thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

¹³ For they that remaine, haue dominio ouer the mightie of the people: the Lorde hath giuen me dominion ouer the strong.

¹⁴ Out of EphraimJoshua first fought against Amalek, and Saul destroyed him.[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.

¹⁵ And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; evenEven the whole tribe.Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] greatThey marvelled that they did not cross the Jordan to help them.thoughts of heart.

¹⁶ Why abodest thou among the sheepefolds, to heare the bleatings of the flockes? for the diuisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart.

¹⁷ She reproves all those who did not come to help their brethren in their time of need.Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in hisEither by hearing of the sea, or by mining,breaches.

¹⁸ But the people of Zebulun and Naphtali haue ieopard their liues vnto the death in the hie places of the field.

¹⁹ The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain ofThey won nothing, but lost all.money.

²⁰ They fought from heauen, euen the starres in their courses fought against Sisera.

²¹ The river of KishonAs a broom does to the filth of the house.swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

²² Then were the horsehooues broken with the oft beating together of their mightie men.

²³ Curse yeIt was a city near Tabor, where they fought.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.

²⁴ Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite shall be blessed aboue other women: blessed shall she be aboue women dwelling in tentes.

²⁵ He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forthSome read churned milk in a great cup.butter in a lordly dish.

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.

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.

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?

²⁹ Her wise ladies answered her, yea,That is, she comforted herself.she returned answer to herself,

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]Because he was chief of the army.for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?

³¹ So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as theShall grow daily more and more in God's favour.sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.