Judges 5

1Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Ex 15:21 · Num 21:17 · 1Sam 2:1 · 2Chr 20:21 · 2Chr 20:27 · +9 more

2“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!Cross-references: Deut 32:43 · Judg 5:9 · 2Sam 22:47 · 2Chr 17:16 · Neh 11:2 · Ps 18:47 · +15 more

3“Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 6:17 · Gen 9:9 · Ex 31:6 · Lev 26:28 · Deut 32:1 · Deut 32:3 · +10 more

4“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.Cross-references: Deut 33:2 · 2Sam 22:8 · Job 9:6 · Ps 18:7 · Ps 68:7 · Ps 77:17 · +1 more

5The mountains quaked at Yahweh’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 19:18 · Ex 20:18 · Deut 4:11 · Deut 5:22 · Ps 68:8 · Ps 97:5 · +5 more

6“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.Cross-references: Lev 26:22 · Judg 3:31 · Judg 4:17 · 2Chr 15:5 · Ps 125:5 · Isa 33:8 · +3 more

7The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.Cross-references: Judg 4:4 · 2Sam 20:19 · Esth 9:19 · Isa 49:23 · Rom 16:13

8They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?Cross-references: Deut 32:16 · Judg 2:12 · Judg 2:17 · Judg 4:3 · 1Sam 13:19

9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!Cross-references: Judg 5:2 · 1Chr 29:9 · 2Cor 8:3 · 2Cor 8:12 · 2Cor 8:17 · 2Cor 9:5

10“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.Cross-references: Judg 10:4 · Judg 12:14 · Ps 105:2 · Ps 107:32 · Ps 145:5 · Ps 145:11 · +2 more

11Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.Cross-references: Gen 26:20 · Ex 2:17 · Deut 22:24 · Judg 5:8 · 1Sam 12:7 · Job 29:7 · +7 more

12‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’Cross-references: Ps 57:8 · Ps 68:18 · Ps 103:1 · Ps 108:2 · Isa 14:2 · Isa 33:1 · +10 more

13“Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.Cross-references: Ps 49:14 · Ps 75:7 · Isa 41:15 · Ezek 17:24 · Dan 7:18 · Rom 8:37 · +2 more

14Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.Cross-references: Ex 17:8 · Num 32:39 · Judg 3:13 · Judg 3:27 · Judg 4:5 · Judg 4:10 · +2 more

15The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.Cross-references: Judg 4:6 · Judg 4:10 · Judg 4:14 · 1Chr 12:32 · Prov 22:13 · Acts 15:39 · +2 more

16Why did you sit among the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.Cross-references: Num 32:1 · Num 32:24 · Judg 5:15 · Ps 4:4 · Ps 77:6 · Lam 3:40 · +2 more

17Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.Cross-references: Josh 13:25 · Josh 13:31 · Josh 19:24

18Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.Cross-references: Judg 4:6 · Judg 4:10 · Judg 4:14 · Esth 4:16 · Acts 20:24 · 1John 3:16 · +1 more

19“The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.Cross-references: Gen 4:16 · Gen 14:22 · Josh 10:22 · Josh 11:1 · Judg 1:27 · Judg 4:13 · +8 more

20From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.Cross-references: Josh 10:11 · Judg 4:15 · 1Sam 7:10 · Ps 77:17

21The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Judg 4:7 · Judg 4:13 · 1Ki 18:40 · Ps 44:5 · Ps 83:9 · +2 more

22Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.Cross-references: Ps 20:7 · Ps 33:17 · Ps 147:10 · Isa 5:28 · Jer 47:4 · Mic 4:13

23‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’Cross-references: Judg 2:1 · Judg 4:6 · Judg 6:11 · Judg 13:3 · Judg 21:9 · 1Sam 17:47 · +10 more

24“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.Cross-references: Gen 14:19 · Judg 4:17 · Prov 31:31 · Luke 1:28 · Luke 1:42

25He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.Cross-references: Judg 4:19

26She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.Cross-references: Judg 4:21 · 1Sam 17:49 · 2Sam 20:22

27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.Cross-references: Ps 52:7 · Matt 7:2 · James 2:13

28“Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’Cross-references: Judg 4:15 · 2Ki 1:2 · Prov 7:6 · Song 2:9 · Song 8:14 · James 5:7

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

30‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’Cross-references: Gen 37:3 · Ex 15:9 · 2Sam 13:18 · Job 20:5 · Ps 45:14

31“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.Cross-references: Ex 20:6 · Deut 6:5 · Judg 3:11 · Judg 3:30 · 2Sam 23:4 · Ps 19:4 · +25 more