Juízes 5

¹ Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

² For the leaders took the lead in Israel, For the people offered themselves willingly, Bless you{+} Yahweh.

³ Hear, O you{+} kings; give ear, O you{+} princes; I, [even] I, will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁴ Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, When you marched out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped water.

⁵ The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, this Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁶ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travelers walked through byways.

⁷ The villagers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until I Deborah arose, I arose a mother in Israel.

⁸ They chose new gods; Then there 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{+} Yahweh.

¹⁰ Tell [of it], you{+} who ride on white donkeys, You{+} who sit on rich carpets, And you{+} who walk by the way.

¹¹ Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his villagers in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

¹² Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and capture your captives, you son of Abinoam.

¹³ Then the survivor went down to the nobles, the people of Yahweh went down for me as warriors.

¹⁴ Out of Ephraim their root [is] in Amalek; After you, Benjamin among your peoples; Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun those who handle the marshal's staff.

¹⁵ And the princes in Issachar were with Deborah; As was Issachar, so was Barak; Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben There were great resolves of heart.

¹⁶ Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

¹⁷ Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan: And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, And stayed by his creeks.

¹⁸ Zebulun was a people who jeopardized their lives to the death, And Naphtali, on 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 From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against Sisera.

²¹ The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

²² Then the horsehoofs stamped By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

²³ Curse{+} Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse{+} bitterly its inhabitants, Because they didn't come to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh against the mighty.

²⁴ Blessed above women will Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed she will be above women in the tent.

²⁵ He asked water, [and] she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

²⁶ She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she struck Sisera, she struck through his head; Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.

²⁷ At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

²⁸ Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots tarry?

²⁹ Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

³⁰ Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A womb, [even] two wombs for each chief [able-bodied] man. A spoil of dyed garments for Sisera. A spoil of embroidered dyed garments, [even] double embroidered dyed garments for the neck of the queen.

³¹ So let all your enemies perish, O Yahweh: But let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.