Judges 5
Geneva Bible 1599
1Then sang Deborah, and Barak the sonne of Abinoam the same day, saying,
2Praise ye the Lord for the auenging of Israel, and for the people that offred themselues willingly.
3Heare, ye Kings, hearken ye princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord: I will sing praise vnto the Lord God of Israel.
4Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens rained, the cloudes also dropped water.
5The mountaines melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel.
6In the dayes of Shamgar the sonne of Anath, in the dayes of Iael the hie wayes were vnoccupied, and the trauelers walked through by wayes.
7The townes were not inhabited: they decayed, I say, in Israel, vntill I Deborah came vp, which rose vp a mother in Israel.
8They chose new gods: then was warre in the gates. Was there a shielde or speare seene among fourtie thousand of Israel?
9Mine heart is set on the gouernours of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.
10Speake ye that ride on white asses, yee that dwel by Middin, and that walke by the way.
11For the noyse of the archers appaised among the drawers of water: there shall they rehearse the righteousnesse of the Lord, his righteousnesse of his townes in Israel: then did the people of the Lord goe downe to the gates.
12Vp Deborah, vp, arise, and sing a song: arise Barak, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam.