1And Deborah sang, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying:
2"When the leaders led in Israel, when the people offered themselves willingly, bless YHWH.
3Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, to YHWH, I will sing; I will make music to YHWH, the God of Israel.
4YHWH, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the field of Edom, the earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, also the clouds dropped water.
5The mountains flowed down before YHWH, this Sinai, before YHWH, the God of Israel.
6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways ceased, and those who walked the paths walked crooked ways.
7The villagers ceased in Israel, they ceased, until I arose, Deborah, until I arose, a mother in Israel.
8He chose new gods; then war was in the gates; was a shield seen, or a spear, among forty thousand in Israel?
9My heart is toward the commanders of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people; bless YHWH.
10You who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way, speak of it!
11From the voice of those who divide at the watering places, there they recount the righteous acts of YHWH, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of YHWH went down to the gates.
12Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and take captive your captives, son of Abinoam!
13Then a survivor went down to the nobles, the people; YHWH went down for me among the mighty.
14Out of Ephraim, those whose root is in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your peoples; out of Machir came down commanders, and out of Zebulun those who handle the staff of the scribe.
15And my princes in Issachar were with Deborah; and Issachar, so was Barak; into the valley he was sent at his feet. Among the divisions of Reuben, great were the resolves of heart.
16Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben, great were the searchings of heart.
17Gilead dwelt beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he sojourn by the ships? Asher sat at the shore of the seas, and dwelt by his bays.
18Zebulun is a people that scorned its soul (nephesh) to death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field.
19The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; gain of silver they did not take.
20From heaven they fought; the stars from their courses fought against Sisera.
21The brook Kishon swept them away, the ancient brook, the brook Kishon. You shall tread down, O my soul (nephesh), with strength!
22Then the hoofs of the horse hammered, from the galloping, the galloping of his mighty ones.
23"Curse Meroz," said the angel of YHWH, "curse, cursing, its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of YHWH, to the help of YHWH among the mighty."
24Blessed above women (ishah) shall Jael be, the wife (ishah) of Heber the Kenite; above women (ishah) in the tent shall she be blessed.
25Water he asked, milk she gave; in a lordly bowl she brought near curd.
26Her hand she put forth to the tent pin, and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; and she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced through his temple.
27Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; between her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell, destroyed.
28Through the window she looked down, and the mother of Sisera cried out through the lattice: "Why is his chariot delayed in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?"
29The wise ones of her princesses answer her; indeed, she returns her own words to herself:
30"Are they not finding, dividing the spoil? A womb, two wombs for the head of each man; spoil of dyed garments for Sisera, spoil of dyed garments of embroidery, dyed work, double embroidery for the necks of the spoil?"
31So may all your enemies perish, O YHWH; but may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its might." And the land was quiet forty years.