| 5:1 | Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, | |
| 5:2 | Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. | |
| 5:3 | Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing to the LORD God of Israel. | |
| 5:4 | LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. | |
| 5:5 | The mountains melted from before the LORD, that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel. | |
| 5:6 | In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through by-ways. | |
| 5:7 | the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. | |
| 5:8 | They chose new gods; then war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? | |
| 5:9 | My heart towards the governors of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people: Bless ye the LORD. | |
| 5:10 | Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. | |
| 5:11 | from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. | |
| 5:12 | Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. | |
| 5:13 | Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. | |
| 5:14 | Out of Ephraim a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. | |
| 5:15 | And the princes of Issachar with Deborah: even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben great thoughts of heart. | |
| 5:16 | Why abodest thou among the sheep-folds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben great searchings of heart. | |
| 5:17 | Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea-shore, and abode in his breaches. | |
| 5:18 | Zebulun and Naphtali a people jeoparded their lives to death in the high places of the field. | |
| 5:19 | The kings came fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Tanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. | |
| 5:20 | They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. | |
| 5:21 | The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. | |
| 5:22 | Then were the horse's hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones. | |
| 5:23 | Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. | |
| 5:24 | Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. | |
| 5:25 | He asked water, she gave milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. | |
| 5:26 | She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and struck through his temples. | |
| 5:27 | At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. | |
| 5:28 | The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? | |
| 5:29 | Her wise ladies answered her, yes, she returned answer to herself. | |
| 5:30 | Have they not found; have they divided the prey; to every man a damsel two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needle-work, of divers colors of needle-work on both sides, for the necks of the spoil? | |
| 5:31 | So let all thy enemies perish, O LORD: but them that love him as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. | |