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\v 1 On that day Deborah and Barak (the son of Abinoam) sang this song:
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\v 2 "When the leaders take the lead in Israel,
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\q when the people gladly volunteer for war—
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\q we praise Yahweh!
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\q
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\v 3 Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you leaders!
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\q I, I will sing to Yahweh;
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\q I will sing praises to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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\q
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\v 4 Yahweh, when you went out from Seir,
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\q when you marched from Edom,
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\q the earth shook, and the skies also trembled;
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\q also the clouds poured down water.
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\v 5 The mountains quaked before the face of Yahweh;
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\q even Mount Sinai quaked before the face of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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\v 6 In the days of Shamgar (son of Anath),
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\q in the days of Jael, the main roads were abandoned,
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\q and those who walked only used the winding paths.
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\v 7 There were no peasants in Israel,
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\q until I, Deborah, took command—
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\q a mother took command in Israel!
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\q
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\v 8 They chose new gods,
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\q and there was fighting at the city gates;
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\q neither shields nor spears were seen
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\q among forty thousand in Israel.
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\v 9 My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel,
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\q along with the people who gladly volunteered—
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\q we bless Yahweh for them!
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\v 10 Think about this—you who ride on white donkeys
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\q sitting on rugs for saddles,
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\q and you who walk along the road.
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\v 11 Hear the voices of those who divide up the sheep between the watering places.
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\q There they tell again of Yahweh's righteous deeds,
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\q and the righteous actions of his warriors in Israel.
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\q Then the people of Yahweh went down to the city gates.
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\v 12 Awake, awake, Deborah!
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\q Awake, awake, sing a song!
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\q Get up, Barak, and capture your prisoners, you son of Abinoam.
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\v 13 Then the survivors came down to the nobles—
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\q the people of Yahweh came down to me among the warriors.
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\v 14 They came from Ephraim, whose root is in Amalek;
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\q the people of Benjamin followed you.
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\q From Machir commanders came down,
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\q and from Zebulun those who carry an officer's staff.
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\v 15 And my princes in Issachar were with Deborah;
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\q and Issachar was with Barak
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\q rushing after him into the valley under his command.
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\q Among the clans of Reuben
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\q there were great searchings of heart.
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\v 16 Why did you sit between the fireplaces,
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\q listening to the shepherds playing their pipes for their flocks?
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\q As for the clans of Reuben
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\q there were great searchings of heart.
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\v 17 Gilead stayed on the other side of the Jordan;
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\q and Dan, why did he wander about on ships?
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\q Asher remained on the coast
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\q and lived close to his harbors.
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\v 18 Zebulun was a tribe who would risk their lives to the point of death,
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\q and Naphtali, also, on the field of battle.
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\v 19 Kings came and fought,
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\q then the kings of Canaan fought, at Taanach
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\q by the waters of Megiddo.
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\q But they took away no silver as plunder.
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\v 20 From heaven the stars fought,
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\q from their paths across the heavens they fought against Sisera.
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\v 21 The Kishon River swept them away,
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\q2 that old river, the Kishon River.
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\q March on my soul, be strong!
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\v 22 Then the sound of horses' hooves—
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\q galloping, the galloping of his mighty ones.
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\v 23 'Curse Meroz!' says the angel of Yahweh.
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\q 'Surely curse its inhabitants!—
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\q because they did not come to help Yahweh—
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\q to help Yahweh in the battle against the mighty warriors.'
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\v 24 Jael is blessed more than all other women,
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\q Jael (the wife of Heber the Kenite),
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\q she is more blessed than all the women who live in tents.
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\v 25 The man asked for water, and she gave him milk;
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\q she brought him butter in a dish fit for princes.
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\v 26 She put her hand to the tent peg,
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\q and her right hand to the workman's hammer;
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\q with the hammer she struck Sisera, she crushed his head.
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\q She smashed his skull into pieces when she pierced him through the side of his head.
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\q
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\v 27 He collapsed between her feet, he fell and he lay there.
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\q Between her feet he fell limp.
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\q The place he collapsed is where he was violently killed.
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\v 28 Out of a window she looked—
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\q the mother of Sisera looked through the lattice and she called out in sadness,
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\q 'Why has it taken his chariot so long to come?
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\q Why have the hoofbeats of the horses that pull his chariots been delayed?'
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\v 29 Her wisest princesses replied,
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\q and she gave herself the same answer:
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\v 30 'Have they not found and divided up the plunder?
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\q —A womb, two wombs for every man;
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\q the plunder of dyed fabric for Sisera,
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\q the plunder of dyed fabric embroidered,
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\q two pieces of dyed fabric embroidered for the necks of those who plunder?'
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\v 31 So may all your enemies perish, Yahweh!
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\q But let those who love him be like the sun when it rises in its might."
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\p And the land had peace for forty years.
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