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底波拉巴拉作歌

那时,底波拉亚比挪庵的儿子巴拉作歌,说: “因为以色列中有军长率领,百姓也甘心牺牲自己,你们应当颂赞耶和华。 君王啊,要听!王子啊,要侧耳而听!我要向耶和华歌唱,我要歌颂耶和华以色列的神。 耶和华啊,你从西珥出来,由以东地行走,那时地震天漏,云也落雨。 山见耶和华的面就震动,西奈山见耶和华以色列神的面也是如此。

“在亚拿之子珊迦的时候,又在雅亿的日子,大道无人行走,都是绕道而行。 以色列中的官长停职,直到我底波拉兴起,等我兴起做以色列的母。 以色列人选择新神,争战的事就临到城门,那时,以色列四万人中岂能见藤牌枪矛呢? 我心倾向以色列的首领,他们在民中甘心牺牲自己。你们应当颂赞耶和华! 10 骑白驴的、坐绣花毯子的、行路的,你们都当传扬。 11 在远离弓箭响声打水之处,人必述说耶和华公义的作为,就是他治理以色列公义的作为。那时耶和华的民下到城门。

12 底波拉啊,兴起,兴起!你当兴起,兴起,唱歌!亚比挪庵的儿子巴拉啊,你当奋兴,掳掠你的敌人! 13 那时有余剩的贵胄和百姓一同下来;耶和华降临,为我攻击勇士。 14 有根本在亚玛力人的地,从以法莲下来的;便雅悯在民中跟随你;有掌权的从玛吉下来;有持杖检点民数的从西布伦下来; 15 以萨迦的首领与底波拉同来,以萨迦怎样,巴拉也怎样。众人都跟随巴拉冲下平原。在鲁本的溪水旁,有心中定大志的。 16 你为何坐在羊圈内听群中吹笛的声音呢?在鲁本的溪水旁,有心中设大谋的。 17 基列人安居在约旦河外。人为何等在船上?亚设人在海口静坐,在港口安居。 18 西布伦人是拼命敢死的,拿弗他利人在田野的高处也是如此。

19 “君王都来争战。那时迦南诸王在米吉多水旁的他纳争战,却未得掳掠银钱。 20 星宿从天上争战,从其轨道攻击西西拉 21 基顺古河把敌人冲没。我的灵啊,应当努力前行! 22 那时壮马驰驱,踢跳,奔腾。 23 耶和华的使者说:‘应当咒诅米罗斯,大大咒诅其中的居民,因为他们不来帮助耶和华,不来帮助耶和华攻击勇士。’

24 基尼希百的妻雅亿比众妇人多得福气,比住帐篷的妇人更蒙福祉! 25 西西拉求水,雅亿给他奶子,用宝贵的盘子给他奶油。 26 雅亿左手拿着帐篷的橛子,右手拿着匠人的锤子,击打西西拉,打伤他的头,把他的鬓角打破穿通。 27 西西拉在她脚前曲身仆倒,在她脚前曲身倒卧;在哪里曲身,就在哪里死亡。

28 西西拉的母亲从窗户里往外观看,从窗棂中呼叫说:‘他的战车为何耽延不来呢?他的车轮为何行得慢呢?’ 29 聪明的宫女安慰她[a],她也自言自语地说: 30 ‘他们莫非得财而分?每人得了一两个女子。西西拉得了彩衣为掳物,得绣花的彩衣为掠物。这彩衣两面绣花,乃是披在被掳之人颈项上的。’ 31 耶和华啊,愿你的仇敌都这样灭亡!愿爱你的人如日头出现,光辉烈烈!”这样,国中太平四十年。

Footnotes

  1. 士师记 5:29 原文作:回答她。

Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, 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 Israel.

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.

The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.

10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

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.

12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.

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.

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.

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.

17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

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.

20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

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.

24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

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.

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.

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?

29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

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?

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.

La canción de Débora

Aquel día, Débora y Barac hijo de Abinoán entonaron este canto:

«Cuando los príncipes de Israel toman el mando,
    cuando el pueblo se ofrece voluntariamente,
    ¡bendito sea el Señor!

»¡Oíd, reyes! ¡Escuchad, gobernantes!
    Yo cantaré, cantaré al Señor;
    tocaré música al Señor, el Dios de Israel.

»Oh Señor, cuando saliste de Seír,
cuando marchaste desde los campos de Edom,
    tembló la tierra,
    se estremecieron los cielos,
    las nubes derramaron agua.
Temblaron las montañas
    al ver al Señor, el Dios del Sinaí;
    al ver al Señor, el Dios de Israel.

»En los días de Samgar hijo de Anat,
    en los días de Jael,
    los viajeros abandonaron los caminos
    y se fueron por sendas escabrosas.
Los guerreros de Israel desaparecieron;
    desaparecieron hasta que yo me levanté.
¡Yo, Débora, me levanté
    como una madre en Israel!
Cuando escogieron nuevos dioses,
    llegó la guerra a las puertas de la ciudad,
pero no se veía ni un escudo ni una lanza
    entre cuarenta mil hombres de Israel.
Mi corazón está con los príncipes de Israel,
    con los voluntarios del pueblo.
    ¡Bendito sea el Señor!

10 »Vosotros, los que montáis asnas blancas
    y os sentáis sobre tapices,
y vosotros, los que andáis por el camino,
    ¡poneos a pensar!
11 La voz de los que cantan en los abrevaderos
    relata los actos de justicia del Señor,
    los actos de justicia de sus guerreros en Israel.
Entonces el ejército del Señor
    descendió a las puertas de la ciudad.

12 »¡Despierta, despierta, Débora!
    ¡Despierta, despierta, y entona una canción!
¡Levántate, Barac!
    Lleva cautivos a tus prisioneros,
    oh hijo de Abinoán.

13 »Los sobrevivientes
    descendieron con los nobles;
el ejército del Señor
    vino a mí con los valientes.
14 Algunos venían de Efraín,
    cuyas raíces estaban en Amalec;
    Benjamín estaba con el pueblo que te seguía.
Desde Maquir bajaron capitanes;
    desde Zabulón, los que llevan el bastón de mando.
15 Con Débora estaban los príncipes de Isacar;
    Isacar estaba con Barac,
    y tras él se lanzó hasta el valle.
En los distritos de Rubén
    hay grandes resoluciones.
16 ¿Por qué permaneciste entre las fogatas
    escuchando los silbidos para llamar a los rebaños?
En los distritos de Rubén
    hay grandes titubeos.
17 Galaad habitó más allá del Jordán.
    Y Dan, ¿por qué se quedó junto a los barcos?
Aser se quedó en la costa del mar;
    permaneció en sus ensenadas.
18 El pueblo de Zabulón arriesgó la vida
    hasta la muerte misma,
a ejemplo de Neftalí
    en las alturas del campo.

19 »Los reyes vinieron y lucharon
    junto a las aguas de Meguido;
los reyes de Canaán lucharon en Tanac,
    pero no se llevaron plata ni botín.
20 Desde los cielos lucharon las estrellas,
    desde sus órbitas lucharon contra Sísara.
21 El torrente Quisón los arrastró;
    el torrente antiguo, el torrente Quisón.
    ¡Marcha, alma mía, con vigor!
22 Resonaron entonces los cascos equinos;
    ¡galopan, galopan sus briosos corceles!
23 “Maldice a Meroz —dijo el ángel del Señor—.
    Maldice a sus habitantes con dureza,
porque no vinieron en ayuda del Señor,
    en ayuda del Señor y de sus valientes”.

24 »¡Sea Jael, esposa de Héber el quenita,
    la más bendita entre las mujeres,
la más bendita entre las mujeres
    que habitan en tiendas!
25 Sísara pidió agua, Jael le dio leche;
    en taza de nobles le ofreció leche cuajada.
26 Su mano izquierda tomó la estaca,
    su mano derecha, el mazo de trabajo.
Golpeó a Sísara, le machacó la cabeza
    y lo remató atravesándole las sienes.
27 A los pies de ella se desplomó;
    allí cayó y quedó tendido.
Cayó desplomado a sus pies;
    allí donde cayó, quedó muerto.

28 »Por la ventana se asoma la madre de Sísara;
    tras la celosía clama a gritos:
“¿Por qué se demora su carro en venir?
    ¿Por qué se atrasa el estruendo de sus carros?”
29 Las más sabias de sus damas le responden;
    y ella se repite a sí misma:
30 “Seguramente se están repartiendo
    el botín arrebatado al enemigo:
una muchacha o dos para cada guerrero;
    telas de colores como botín para Sísara;
una tela, dos telas, de colores
    bordadas para mi cuello.
    ¡Todo esto como botín!”

31 »¡Así perezcan todos tus enemigos, oh Señor!
Pero los que te aman sean como el sol
    cuando sale en todo su esplendor».

Entonces el país tuvo paz durante cuarenta años.

The Song of Deborah

On that day Deborah(A) and Barak son of Abinoam(B) sang this song:(C)

“When the princes in Israel take the lead,
    when the people willingly offer(D) themselves—
    praise the Lord!(E)

“Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers!
    I, even I, will sing to[a] the Lord;(F)
    I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.(G)

“When you, Lord, went out(H) from Seir,(I)
    when you marched from the land of Edom,
the earth shook,(J) the heavens poured,
    the clouds poured down water.(K)
The mountains quaked(L) before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,(M)
    in the days of Jael,(N) the highways(O) were abandoned;
    travelers took to winding paths.(P)
Villagers in Israel would not fight;
    they held back until I, Deborah,(Q) arose,
    until I arose, a mother in Israel.
God chose new leaders(R)
    when war came to the city gates,(S)
but not a shield or spear(T) was seen
    among forty thousand in Israel.
My heart is with Israel’s princes,
    with the willing volunteers(U) among the people.
    Praise the Lord!

10 “You who ride on white donkeys,(V)
    sitting on your saddle blankets,
    and you who walk along the road,
consider 11 the voice of the singers[b] at the watering places.
    They recite the victories(W) of the Lord,
    the victories of his villagers in Israel.

“Then the people of the Lord
    went down to the city gates.(X)
12 ‘Wake up,(Y) wake up, Deborah!(Z)
    Wake up, wake up, break out in song!
Arise, Barak!(AA)
    Take captive your captives,(AB) son of Abinoam.’

13 “The remnant of the nobles came down;
    the people of the Lord came down to me against the mighty.
14 Some came from Ephraim,(AC) whose roots were in Amalek;(AD)
    Benjamin(AE) was with the people who followed you.
From Makir(AF) captains came down,
    from Zebulun those who bear a commander’s[c] staff.
15 The princes of Issachar(AG) were with Deborah;(AH)
    yes, Issachar was with Barak,(AI)
    sent under his command into the valley.
In the districts of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.
16 Why did you stay among the sheep pens[d](AJ)
    to hear the whistling for the flocks?(AK)
In the districts of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.
17 Gilead(AL) stayed beyond the Jordan.
    And Dan, why did he linger by the ships?
Asher(AM) remained on the coast(AN)
    and stayed in his coves.
18 The people of Zebulun(AO) risked their very lives;
    so did Naphtali(AP) on the terraced fields.(AQ)

19 “Kings came(AR), they fought,
    the kings of Canaan fought.
At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo,(AS)
    they took no plunder of silver.(AT)
20 From the heavens(AU) the stars fought,
    from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21 The river Kishon(AV) swept them away,
    the age-old river, the river Kishon.
    March on, my soul; be strong!(AW)
22 Then thundered the horses’ hooves—
    galloping, galloping go his mighty steeds.(AX)
23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the Lord.
    ‘Curse its people bitterly,
because they did not come to help the Lord,
    to help the Lord against the mighty.’

24 “Most blessed of women(AY) be Jael,(AZ)
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,(BA)
    most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
25 He asked for water, and she gave him milk;(BB)
    in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.
26 Her hand reached for the tent peg,
    her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,
    she shattered and pierced his temple.(BC)
27 At her feet he sank,
    he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
    where he sank, there he fell—dead(BD).

28 “Through the window(BE) peered Sisera’s mother;
    behind the lattice she cried out,(BF)
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’
29 The wisest of her ladies answer her;
    indeed, she keeps saying to herself,
30 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:(BG)
    a woman or two for each man,
colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,
    colorful garments embroidered,
highly embroidered garments(BH) for my neck—
    all this as plunder?(BI)

31 “So may all your enemies perish,(BJ) Lord!
    But may all who love you be like the sun(BK)
    when it rises in its strength.”(BL)

Then the land had peace(BM) forty years.

Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:3 Or of
  2. Judges 5:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  3. Judges 5:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  4. Judges 5:16 Or the campfires; or the saddlebags