The Scriptures 1998

Judges 5:12-22 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

12. “Wake up, wake up, Deḇorah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Arise, Baraq, and lead your captives away, O son of Aḇino‛am!

13. “Then He set the remnant to rule the nobles; יהוה came down for me against the mighty ones.

14. “Out of Ephrayim their root is against Amalĕq. After you, Binyamin, with your peoples, out of Maḵir lawgivers came down, and out of Zeḇulun those who handle the scribe’s reed.

15. “And the heads of Yissasḵar were with Deḇorah. And as Yissasḵar, so was Baraq sent into the valley under his command. Among the divisions of Re’uḇĕn there were great searchings of heart.

16. “Why did you remain among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? The divisions of Re’uḇĕn have great searchings of heart.

17. “Gil‛aḏ remained beyond the Yardĕn, and why did Dan remain on ships? Ashĕr continued at the seashore, and remained by its landing places.

18. “Zeḇulun is a people who risked their lives to the point of death, Naphtali also, on the heights of the field.

19. “Sovereigns came, they fought, then the sovereigns of Kena‛an fought in Ta‛anaḵ, by the waters of Meg̅iddo; they took no spoils of silver.

20. “From the heavens they fought; the stars from their courses fought against Sisera.

21. “The wadi of Qishon swept them away, that age-old wadi, the wadi of Qishon. O my being, you have trampled in strength!

22. “Then stamped hoofs of horses, with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.