Judges
Judges 5
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Judges 5 — Scripture text (King James Version)
Then sang and the son of that day, saying, Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of , when the people willingly offered themselves. Hear, 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 . LORD, when thou wentest out of , when thou marchedst out of the field of , the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that from before the LORD God of . In the days of the son of , in the days of , the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in , until that I arose, that I arose a mother in . They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a or seen among forty thousand in ? My heart is toward the governors of , that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. Speak, ye that ride white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. They that 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 : then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. Awake, awake, : awake, awake, utter a song: arise, , and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of . Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. Out of was there a root of them against ; after thee, , among thy people; out of came down governors, and out of they that handle the pen of the writer. And the princes of were with ; even , and also : he was sent foot into the valley. For the divisions of there were great thoughts of heart. Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of there were great searchings of heart. abode beyond : and why did remain in ships? continued the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. and were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of in by the waters of ; they took no gain of money. They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against . The river of swept them away, that ancient river, the river . O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones. Curse ye , 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. Blessed above women shall the wife of the be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote , she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.