Judges Chapter 5

• Judges 5:1
  Judges.
• Judges 5:2
  Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
• Judges 5:3
  “Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, LORD!
• Judges 5:4
  “Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to the LORD. I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
• Judges 5:5
  “LORD, 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.
• Judges 5:6
  The mountains quaked at the LORD’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel.
• Judges 5:7
  “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
• Judges 5:8
  The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
• Judges 5:9
  They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
• Judges 5:10
  My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD!
• Judges 5:11
  “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.
• Judges 5:12
  Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the LORD’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in I...
• Judges 5:13
  ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
• Judges 5:14
  “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. The LORD came down for me against the mighty.
• Judges 5:15
  Those 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 ma...
• Judges 5:16
  The 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, ther...
• Judges 5:17
  Why did you sit among the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.
• Judges 5:18
  Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.
• Judges 5:19
  Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
• Judges 5:20
  “The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.
• Judges 5:21
  From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
• Judges 5:22
  The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
• Judges 5:23
  Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.
• Judges 5:24
  ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the LORD’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty....
• Judges 5:25
  “Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
• Judges 5:26
  He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
• Judges 5:27
  She 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...
• Judges 5:28
  At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
• Judges 5:29
  “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...
• Judges 5:30
  Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
• Judges 5:31
  ‘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 garm...
• Judges 5:32
  “So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.