² Why should the nations say,
    ^(C)“Where is their God?”
^3 (D)Our God is in the heavens;
    ^(E)he does all that he pleases.

^4 (F)Their idols are silver and gold,
    ^(G)the work of human hands.
⁵ They have mouths, ^(H)but do not speak;
    eyes, but do not see.
⁶ They have ears, but do not hear;
    noses, but do not smell.
⁷ They have hands, but do not feel;
    feet, but do not walk;
    and they do not make a sound in their throat.
^8 (I)Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.

⁹ O ^(J)Israel,^{[a] (K)}trust in the Lord!
    He is their ^(L)help and their shield.
¹⁰ O ^(M)house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and ^(N)their shield.
¹¹ You ^(O)who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and their shield.

¹² The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;
    he will bless ^(P)the house of Israel;
    he will bless ^(Q)the house of Aaron;
¹³ he will ^(R)bless those who fear the Lord,
    ^(S)both the small and the great.

¹⁴ May the Lord ^(T)give you increase,
    you and your children!
¹⁵ May ^(U)you be blessed by the Lord,
    ^(V)who made heaven and earth!

¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord's heavens,
    but the earth he has given to the children of man.
^17 (W)The dead do not praise the Lord,
    nor do any who go down into ^(X)silence.
¹⁸ But ^(Y)we will bless the Lord
    from this time forth and forevermore.
^(Z)Praise the Lord!

² “That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
    that ^(B)the people offered themselves willingly,
    bless the Lord!

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, ^(C)when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the region of Edom,
^(D)the earth trembled
    and the heavens dropped,
    yes, the clouds dropped water.
⁵ The mountains ^(E)quaked before the Lord,
    ^(F)even Sinai before the Lord,^[a] the God of Israel.

⁶ “In the days of ^(G)Shamgar, son of Anath,
    in the days of ^(H)Jael, ^(I)the highways were abandoned,
    and travelers kept to the byways.
⁷ The villagers ceased in Israel;
    they ceased to be until I arose;
    I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.
^8 (J)When new gods were chosen,
    then war was in the gates.
^(K)Was shield or spear to be seen
    among forty thousand in Israel?
⁹ My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
    who ^(L)offered themselves willingly among the people.
    Bless the Lord.

¹⁰ “Tell of it, ^(M)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 righteous triumphs of the Lord,
    the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.

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