2With requital has Israel been avenged; praise the LORD with a song for avenging Israel.

3Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst in the fields of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

5The mountains melted from before the LORD, even this Sinai from the presence of the LORD the Holy One of Israel.

6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Anael, the highways were cut off, and the travellers who once walked on main roads, had to go through the crooked byways.

7The little villages ceased in Israel; they ceased, until I Deborah arose, I arose as a mother in Israel.

8The LORD will choose new things; then the barley bread, and a sword or a spear shall not be seen among forty thousand in Israel.

9My heart said to the lawgiver of Israel, They that are chosen among the people bless the LORD.

10O you who ride on white asses, you who dwell in houses, and you who travel on the highways,

11Meditate on the words of the inquirers, who are among the teachers; they shall execute the righteousness of the LORD, even his righteousness which he has multiplied in Israel; then shall the people of the LORD march to the gates.

12Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, utter a song; arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

13Then the deliverer went down to sing praise before the LORD; thou hast given me victory by the hand of a man out of Ephraim.

14And Barak's works are known in Amalek; after you marched Benjamin with affection for you; out of Machir came forth a seer, and out of Zebulun those who write with the pen of a scribe.

15And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar is like Barak among the peoples; he was sent on foot to a portion of Reuben; great are those who give oracles to comfort the heart.

16Why abodest thou on the highways to hear the bleatings of the wild asses? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

17Gad abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan brought ships to the harbor; Asher dwelt on the sea shore, and remained in its harbors.

18Zebulun and Naphtali were peoples who jeopardized their lives on the high places of his field.

19The kings came and fought; then fought the kings of Canaan; they fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no goods nor money.

20The stars fought from their courses; they fought from heaven against Sisera by the river Kishon.

21The river Kishon and the river Karmin swept them away. O my soul, you have defeated an army!

22Then the hoofs of his horses fell down, were broken because of the prancing of his mighty ones.

23Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse it, and curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not with men to the help of the LORD.

24Blessed above women shall Anael 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 giant bowl.

26She put her hand to the peg and her right hand to the carpenter's hammer, and with the hammer she struck Sisera and crushed his head, when she had struck and pierced his temples.

27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at the place where he bowed, there he fell down dead, the plunderer.

28The mother of Sisera looked out of the window and cried through the lattice, Why are the chariots of my son so long in coming? Why tarries the clatter of his chariots?

29Her wise ladies answered her, saying,

30Perhaps he went and found great spoil, dividing the prey, giving to every man a mule and great booty, and to Sisera a prey of diverse colors of needlework and divers colors of embroidered work, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil.

31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD; but let them that love thee be like the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest for forty years.