JUDGES
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- 9My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
- That offered themselves willingly among the people.
- Bless ye the Lord.
- 10Ye that ride on white asses,
- Ye that sit on rich cloths,
- And ye that walk by the way, tell of it;
- 11Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs!
- There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord,
- Even the righteous acts of His rulers in Israel.
- Then the people of the Lord went down to the gates.
- 12Awake, awake, Deborah;
- Awake, awake, utter a song;
- Arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
- 13Then made He a remnant to have dominion over the nobles and the people;
- The Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
- 14Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek;
- After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples;
- Out of Machir came down governors,
- And out of Zebulun they that handle the marshal's staff.
- 15And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
- As was Issachar, so was Barak;
- Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet.
- Among the divisions of Reuben
- There were great resolves of heart.
- 16Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds,
- To hear the pipings for the flocks?
- At the divisions of Reuben
- There were great searchings of heart.
- 17Gilead abode beyond the Jordan;
- And Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?
- Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea,
- And abideth by its bays.
- 18Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death,
- And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.
- 19The kings came, they fought;
- Then fought the kings of Canaan,
- In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo;
- They took no gain of money.
- 20They fought from heaven,
- The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
- 21The brook Kishon swept them away,
- That ancient brook, the brook Kishon.
- O my soul, tread them down with strength.
- 22Then did the horsehoofs stamp
- By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
- 23'Curse ye Meroz', said the angel of the Lord,
- 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof,
- Because they came not to the help of the Lord,
- To the help of the Lord against the mighty.'
- 24Blessed above women shall Jael be,
- The wife of Heber the Kenite,
- Above women in the tent shall she be blessed.
- 25Water he asked, milk she gave him;
- In a lordly bowl she brought him curd.
- 26Her hand she put to the tent-pin,
- And her right hand to the workmen's hammer;
- And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head,
- Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.
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