¹⁵ when the ^[a]Sabeans ^[b]raided them and took them away—indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Mercy on Jacob

14 For the Lord ^(A)will have mercy on Jacob, and ^(B)will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. ^(C)The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. ² Then people will take them ^(D)and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, ^(E)and rule over their oppressors.

^14 (A)And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He ^(B)delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and ^(C)He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they ^(D)could no longer stand before their enemies.

⁴² The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and ^[a]Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their ^[b]wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

⁹ So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the Lord will ^(A)sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

² So the Lord ^(A)sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in ^(B)Hazor. The commander of his army was ^(C)Sisera, who dwelt in ^(D)Harosheth Hagoyim.