15. The leaders of Issachar came along with Deborah;Issachar was attached to Barak,and was sent into the valley behind him.Among the clans of Reubenthere was deep soul-searching.
16. "Why did you stay back among the sheep pens,listening to the music for the flocks?"For the clans of Reubenthere was deep soul-searching.
17. Gilead stayed on the other side of the Jordan,and Dan, why did he remain with the ships?Asher stayed by the seacoast,camping at his harbors.
18. Zebulun is a people that readily risked death;Naphtali too in the high countryside.
19. Kings came and made war;the kings of Canaan foughtat Taanach by Megiddo’s waters,but they captured no spoils of silver.
20. The stars fought from the sky;from their orbits they fought against Sisera.
21. The Kishon River swept them away;the advancing river, the Kishon River.March on, my life, with might!
22. Then the horses’ hooves poundedwith the galloping, galloping of their stallions.
23. "Curse Meroz," says the Lord’s messenger,"curse its inhabitants bitterly,because they didn’t come to the Lord’s aid,to the Lord’s aid against the warriors."