Judges 5:1-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ ‘Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;
    to the Lord I will sing,
    I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁴ ‘Lord, when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled,
    and the heavens poured,
    the clouds indeed poured water.
⁵ The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁶ ‘In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
    in the days of Jael, caravans ceased
    and travellers kept to the byways.
⁷ The peasantry prospered in Israel,
    they grew fat on plunder,
because you arose, Deborah,
    arose as a mother in Israel.
⁸ When new gods were chosen,
    then war was in the gates.
Was shield or spear to be seen
    among forty thousand in Israel?
⁹ My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
    who offered themselves willingly among the people.
    Bless the Lord.

¹⁰ ‘Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys,
    you who sit on rich carpets,^[b]
    and you who walk by the way.
¹¹ To the sound of musicians^[c] at the watering-places,
    there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord,
    the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel.

‘Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.