Judges 5:12-23

English Standard Version

¹²^(A)“Awake, awake, Deborah!
    Awake, awake, break out in a song!
Arise, Barak, ^(B)lead away your captives,
    O son of Abinoam.
¹³Then down marched the remnant of the noble;
    the people of the Lord marched down for me against the mighty.
¹⁴From ^(C)Ephraim their root ^(D)they marched down into the valley,^[a]
    following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen;
from ^(E)Machir marched down the commanders,
    and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant's^[b] staff;
¹⁵the princes of Issachar came with Deborah,
    and Issachar faithful to ^(F)Barak;
    into the valley they rushed at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
    there were great searchings of heart.
¹⁶Why did you sit still ^(G)among the sheepfolds,
    to hear the whistling for the flocks?
Among the clans of Reuben
    there were great searchings of heart.
¹⁷^(H)Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;
    ^(I)and Dan, why did he stay with the ships?
^(J)Asher sat still ^(K)at the coast of the sea,
    staying by his landings.
¹⁸^(L)Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death;
    ^(M)Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.

¹⁹“The kings came, they fought;
    then fought the kings of Canaan,
at ^(N)Taanach, by the waters of ^(O)Megiddo;
    ^(P)they got no spoils of silver.
²⁰^(Q)From heaven the stars fought,
    from their courses they fought against Sisera.
²¹^(R)The torrent Kishon swept them away,
    the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
    March on, my soul, with might!

²²“Then loud beat the horses' hoofs
with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

²³“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,
curse its inhabitants thoroughly,
^(S)because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.