Judges 5:2
Good News Translation
Praise the LORD! The Israelites were determined to fight; the people gladly volunteered.

New Revised Standard Version
“When locks are long in Israel, when the people offer themselves willingly— bless the LORD!

Contemporary English Version
We praise you, LORD! Our soldiers volunteered, ready to follow you.

New American Bible
When uprising broke out in Israel, when the people rallied for duty—bless the LORD!

Douay-Rheims Bible
O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord.

for the avenging

Deuteronomy 32:43 Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

2 Samuel 22:47,48 The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted: . . .

Psalm 18:47 O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.

Psalm 48:11 Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord.

Psalm 94:1 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.

Psalm 97:8 Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord.

Psalm 136:15,19,20 And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Psalm 149:6-9 The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands: . . .

Revelation 16:5,6 And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things. . . .

Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her.

Revelation 19:2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

when

Judges 5:9 My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own good will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.

2 Chronicles 17:16 And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the Lord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.

Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me.

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.

2 Corinthians 9:7 Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

Philemon 1:14 But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.

Context
The Song of Deborah and Barak
1In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said: 2O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord.3Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes: It is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord, the God of Israel.…
Cross References
Judges 5:9
My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own good will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.

2 Chronicles 17:16
And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the Lord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.

Psalm 110:3
With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

Judges 5:1
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