1And Deborah sang, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying,2When leaders led in Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves, bless the LORD.3Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers. I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.4O LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens also dripped, and the clouds also dripped water.5The mountains flowed down before the LORD, even this Sinai before the LORD, the God of Israel.6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways ceased, and the travelers on the paths walked on crooked ways.7The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose as a mother in Israel.8He chooses new gods; then war is at the gates. Was a shield or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?9My heart is with the lawgivers of Israel, those who willingly offered themselves among the people. Bless the LORD.10You who ride on tawny donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk on the road, consider.11Far from the noise of the archers, between the watering places, there they recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of his villagers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.12Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song. Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.13Then the survivors came down to the nobles; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty.14From Ephraim came those whose root was in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir commanders came down, and from Zebulun those who bear the staff of the scribe.15And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; Issachar likewise was with Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the divisions of Reuben there were great resolves of heart.16Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.17Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he abide with the ships? Asher sat still at the seacoast and stayed by his landings.18Zebulun was a people that risked their lives to the death; Naphtali too on the heights of the field.19The kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of silver.20From heaven the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.21The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.22Then the hoofs of the horses struck, from the dashing, the dashing of his mighty steeds.23Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants utterly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.24Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; of women in the tent most blessed be she.25He asked for water; she gave him milk; she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.26She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.27Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.28Out of the window she peered; the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice: Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the hoofbeats of his chariots tarry?29Her wisest ladies answer her; indeed she repeats her words to herself.30Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? A womb or two for each man; spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera, spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered, two pieces of dyed embroidery for the neck as spoil?31So let all your enemies perish, O LORD! But let those who love him be like the sun when it rises in its might. And the land had rest for forty years.