1On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
2“When the princes take the lead in Israel,
3Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes!
4O LORD, when You went out from Seir,
5The mountains quaked before the LORD,
6In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
7Life in the villages ceased;
8When they chose new gods,
9My heart is with the princes of Israel,
10You who ride white donkeys,
11the voices of the singers 5:11 Or archers or those who divide the sheep
12‘Awake, awake, O Deborah!
13Then the survivors came down to the nobles;
14Some came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek;
15The princes of Issachar were with Deborah,
16Why did you sit among the sheepfolds
17Gilead remained beyond the Jordan.
18Zebulun was a people who risked their lives;
19Kings came and fought;
20From the heavens the stars fought;
21The River Kishon swept them away,
22Then the hooves of horses thundered—
23‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD.
24Most blessed among women is Jael,
25He asked for water, and she gave him milk.
26She reached for the tent peg,
27At her feet he collapsed, he fell,
28Sisera’s mother looked through the window;
29Her wisest ladies answer;
30‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—
31So may all your enemies perish,