1Then sang D’vorah [Bee] and Barak [Lightning] the son of Avino’am [My Father is Delight] on that day, saying,

2Praise you^2f the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) for the avenging of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], when the people willingly offered themselves.

3Hear, O you^2f kings; give ear, O you^2f princes; I, [even] I, will sing unto the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); I will sing [praise] to the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

4LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), when youⁱ went out of Se’ir [Shaggy], when youⁱ marched out of the field of Edom [Red], the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

5The mountains melted from before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [even] that Sinai from before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

6In the days of Shamgar [Sword] the son of ‘Anat [Answer], in the days of Ya’el [Mountain Goat], the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

7[The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], until that I D’vorah [Bee] arose, that I arose a mother in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

8They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?

9My heart [is] toward the governors of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless you^2f the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

10Speak, you^2f that ride on white asses, you^2f that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

11[They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: then shall the people of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) go down to the gates.

12Awake, awake, D’vorah [Bee]: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak [Lightning], and lead youⁱ captivity captive, youⁱ son of Avino’am [My Father is Delight].

13Then he made him that remains have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) made me have dominion over the mighty.

14Out of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [was there] a root of them against ‘Amalek [Dweller in a Valley]; after youⁱ, Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], among youⁱ people; out of Makhir [Sold] came down governors, and out of Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place] they that handle the pen of the writer.

15And the princes of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense] [were] with D’vorah [Bee]; even Yissakhar [There Is Recompense], and also Barak [Lightning]: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Re’uven [Behold a Son] [there were] great thoughts of heart.

16Why dwelled youⁱ among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Re’uven [Behold a Son] [there were] great searchings of heart.

17Gil’ad [Rocky Region] abode beyond Yarden [Descender]: and why did Dan [Judge] remain in ships? Asher [Happy] continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

18Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place] and Naftali [My Wrestling] [were] a people [that] jeopardized their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

19The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Kena’an [Merchant] in Ta’anakh [Sandy] by the waters of Megiddo [Place of Crowds]; they took no gain of money.

20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisra [Battle Array (to put on; to clothe)].

21The river of Kishon [Winding] swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon [Winding]. O my soul, youⁱ have trampled down strength.

22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

23Curse you^2f Meroz [Refuge], said the angel of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), curse you^2f bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to the help of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) against the mighty.

24Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) above women shall Ya’el [Mountain Goat] the wife of Hever [Comrade] the Kayin [Possession] be, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) 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 struck Sisra [Battle Array (to put on; to clothe)], she struck 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 Sisra [Battle Array (to put on; to clothe)] looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why wait the wheels of his chariots?

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

30Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a girl [or] two; to Sisra [Battle Array (to put on; to clothe)] a prey of diverse colours, a prey of diverse colours of needlework, of diverse colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil (plunder; prey; booty)?

31So let all yourⁱ enemies perish, O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.