¹¹ To the sound of instruments^[a] at the watering places,
    there they repeat the Lord’s victories,
        his villagers’ victories in Israel.
Then the Lord’s people marched down to the city gates.
¹²     “Wake up, wake up, Deborah!
    Wake up, wake up, sing a song!
Arise, Barak!
    Capture your prisoners,
        Abinoam’s son!”
¹³ Then those who remained marched down against royalty;
    the Lord’s people marched down^[b] against warriors.
¹⁴ From Ephraim they set out^[c] into the valley,^[d]
    after you, Benjamin, with your people!
From Machir commanders marched down,
    and from Zebulun those carrying the official’s staff.
¹⁵ The leaders of Issachar came along with Deborah;
    Issachar was attached to Barak,
    and was sent into the valley behind him.
Among the clans of Reuben
    there was deep soul-searching.
¹⁶ “Why did you stay back among the sheep pens,
    listening to the music for the flocks?”
For the clans of Reuben
    there was deep soul-searching.
¹⁷ Gilead stayed on the other side of the Jordan,
    and Dan, why did he remain with the ships?
Asher stayed by the seacoast,
    camping at his harbors.
¹⁸ Zebulun is a people that readily risked death;
    Naphtali too in the high countryside.

¹⁹ Kings came and made war;
    the kings of Canaan fought
        at Taanach by Megiddo’s waters,
        but they captured no spoils of silver.
²⁰ The stars fought from the sky;
    from their orbits they fought against Sisera.
²¹ The Kishon River swept them away;
    the advancing river, the Kishon River.
    March on, my life, with might!

²² Then the horses’ hooves pounded
    with the galloping, galloping of their stallions.
²³ “Curse Meroz,” says the Lord’s messenger,
    “curse its inhabitants bitterly,
    because they didn’t come to the Lord’s aid,
    to the Lord’s aid against the warriors.”

²⁴ May Jael be blessed above all women;
    may the wife of Heber the Kenite
    be blessed above all tent-dwelling women.

⁸ Let me hear what the Lord God says,
    because he speaks peace to his people and to his faithful ones.
    Don’t let them return to foolish ways.
⁹ God’s salvation is very close to those who honor him
    so that his glory can live in our land.
¹⁰ Faithful love and truth have met;
    righteousness and peace have kissed.
¹¹ Truth springs up from the ground;
    righteousness gazes down from heaven.
¹² Yes, the Lord gives what is good,
    and our land yields its produce.
¹³ Righteousness walks before God,
    making a road for his steps.