2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging __ of Israel when the people willingly offered themselves
3 Hear O ye kings give ear O ye princes I even I will sing unto the LORD I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel
4 LORD when thou wentest out of Seir when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom the earth trembled and the heavens dropped the clouds also dropped water
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath in the days of Jael the highways were 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 a mother in Israel
8 They chose new gods then was war in the gates was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel
9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people Bless ye the LORD
10 Speak ye that ride on white asses ye that sit in judgment and walk by the way
11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates
12 Awake awake Deborah awake awake utter a song arise Barak and lead thy captivity captive thou son of Abinoam
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty
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
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah even Issachar and also Barak he was sent on foot into the valley For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart
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
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan and why did Dan remain in ships Asher continued on the sea shore and abode in his breaches
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high 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 of money
20 They fought from heaven the stars in their courses fought against Sisera
21 The river of Kishon swept them away that ancient river the river Kishon O my soul thou hast trodden down strength
22 Then were the horsehoofs __ broken by the means of the pransings the pransings of their mighty ones
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
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be blessed shall she be above women in the tent
25 He asked water and she gave him milk she brought forth butter in a lordly dish
26 She put her hand to the nail and her right hand to the workmen's hammer and with the hammer she smote Sisera she smote off his head when she had pierced and stricken through his temples
27 At her feet he bowed he fell he lay down at her feet he bowed he fell where he bowed there he fell down dead
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming why tarry the wheels of his chariots
29 Her wise ladies answered her yea 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 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 the sun when he goeth forth in his might And the land had rest forty years
