1. At that time, Deborah and Barak, Abinoam’s son, sang:
2. When hair is long in Israel,when people willingly offer themselves—bless the Lord!
3. Hear, kings!Listen, rulers!I, to the Lord, I will sing.I will make music to the Lord, Israel’s God.
4. Lord, when you set out from Seir,when you marched out from Edom’s fields, the land shook,the sky poured down,the clouds poured down water.
5. The mountains quakedbefore the Lord, the one from Sinai,before the Lord, the God of Israel.
6. In the days of Shamgar, Anath’s son,in the days of Jael, caravans ceased.Those traveling by roadkept to the backroads.
7. Villagers disappeared;they disappeared in Israel,until you, Deborah, arose,until you arose as a mother in Israel.
8. When they chose new gods,then war came to the city gates.Yet there wasn’t a shield or spear to be seenamong forty thousand in Israel!
9. My heart is with Israel’s commanders,who willingly offered themselves among the people—bless the Lord!
10. You who ride white donkeys,who sit on saddle blankets,who walk along the road: tell of it.