1Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying, 2Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. 3Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

4LORD, when Thou wentest out of Seir, when Thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 5The mountains melted from before the LORD, even distant {that} Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

6In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways. 7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, arose a mother in Israel. 8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

10Speak, ye who ride on white asses, ye who sit in judgment, and walk by the way. 11They who are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of His villages in Israel; then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

12Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, sing {utter} a song! Arise, Barak, and lead your captives away {thy captivity captive}, thou son of Abinoam. 13Then he made him who remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people; the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. 14Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they who 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 thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. 17Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in its creeks {his breaches}. 18Zebulun and Naphtali were a people who 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, thou hast trodden down strength. 22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones. 23Curse ye Meroz, said the Angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the 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 through {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 spoil {prey}: to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a spoil {prey} of dyed garments of needlework, {divers colors a prey} of dyed garments, {divers colors}of needlework, of dyed garments {divers colors} of needlework on both sides, suitable {meet} for the necks of those {them} who take the spoil? 31So let all Thine enemies perish, O LORD; but let them who love Him be like {as} the sun when it comes out in full strength {he goeth forth in his might}. And the land had rest forty years.