Judges 5:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ In the days of Shamgar, Anath’s son,
    in the days of Jael, caravans ceased.
Those traveling by road
    kept to the backroads.
⁷ Villagers disappeared;
    they disappeared in Israel,
        until you,^[a] Deborah, arose,
        until you arose as a mother in Israel.
⁸ When they chose new gods,
    then war came to the city gates.^[b]
Yet there wasn’t a shield or spear to be seen
    among forty thousand in Israel!