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Judges 5 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:1 - Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2 - Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - 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 Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:6 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:10 - Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - 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 Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:12 - Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:15 - And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:16 - Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:18 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:19 - The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:21 - The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22 - Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - Curse ye Meroz, 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:26 - She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:27 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:29 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - 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.
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