Judges 5

²“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel,

³“Hear, you kings!

⁴“LORD, when you went out of Seir,

⁵The mountains quaked at the LORD’s presence,

⁶“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,

⁷The rulers ceased in Israel.

⁸They chose new gods.

⁹My heart is toward the governors of Israel,

¹⁰“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys,

¹¹Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water,

¹²‘Awake, awake, Deborah!

¹³“Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down.

¹⁴Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim,

¹⁵The princes of Issachar were with Deborah.

¹⁶Why did you sit among the sheepfolds?

¹⁷Gilead lived beyond the Jordan.

¹⁸Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death;

¹⁹“The kings came and fought,

²⁰From the sky the stars fought.

²¹The river Kishon swept them away,

²²Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing,

²³‘Curse Meroz,’ said the LORD’s angel.

²⁴“Jael shall be blessed above women,

²⁵He asked for water.

²⁶She put her hand to the tent peg,

²⁷At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.

²⁸“Through the window she looked out, and cried:

²⁹Her wise ladies answered her,

³⁰‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder?

³¹“So let all your enemies perish, LORD,