1Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2Praise you Yahuah (LORD) for the avenging of Yashar'el (Israel), when the people willingly offered themselves.
3Hear, O you kings; give ear, O you princes; I, even I, will sing unto Yahuah (LORD); I will sing praise to Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel).
4Yahuah (LORD), when you went out of Seir, when you marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5The mountains melted from before Yahuah (LORD), even that Sinai from before Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel).
6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Yashar'el (Israel), until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Yashar'el (Israel).
8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Yashar'el (Israel)?
9My heart is toward the governors of Yashar'el (Israel), that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless you Yahuah (LORD).
10Speak, you that ride on white asses, you that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
11They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yahuah (LORD), even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Yashar'el (Israel): then shall the people of Yahuah (LORD) go down to the gates.
12Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead your captivity captive, you son of Abinoam.
13Then he made him that remains have dominion over the nobles among the people: Yahuah (LORD) made me have dominion over the mighty.
14Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
15And 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.
16Why abodest you among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
18Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
19The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
21The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you have trodden down strength.
22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
23Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahuah (LORD), curse you bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of Yahuah (LORD), to the help of Yahuah (LORD) against the mighty.
24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26She 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.
27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28The 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?
29Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30Have 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?
31So let all your enemies perish, O Yahuah (LORD): but let them that love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.