Judges 5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Judges 5The Song of Deborah

1 —

bless the Lord!

3 you arose, Deborah,

arose as a mother in Israel.

8

and you who walk by the way.

11 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.

12 against the mighty.

14 into the valley,

following you, Benjamin, with your kin;

from Machir marched down the commanders,

and from Zebulun those who bear the marshal’s staff;

15 through the lattice:

‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?

Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’

29Her wisest ladies make answer;

indeed, she answers the question herself:

30 Ex 15.9 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?

A woman or two for every man;

spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera,

spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered,

two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’

31 Judg 3.11; Ps 19.4, 5; 68.2; 92.9 So perish all your enemies, O Lord!

But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.”

And the land had rest forty years.