13. Then a remnant of nobles came down. Adonai’s people came down to me with the mighty ones.
14. Those with root in Amalek are from Ephraim, following you, Benjamin, with your peoples. From Machir came down rulers, and from Zebulun wielding the marshal’s staff.
15. Issachar’s chiefs were with Deborah. Issachar was with Barak. Into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the divisions of Reuben there were great resolves of heart.
16. Why did you stay in the sheepfolds— to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there was much searching of heart.
17. Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan, and Dan, why did he stay by the ships? Asher sat at the seacoast, dwelling by its docks.
18. Zebulun is a people who jeopardized their lives to death, and Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.
19. The kings came, they fought, then the kings of Canaan fought, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no spoil of silver.
20. From heaven, the stars fought, in their courses they fought Sisera.
21. The Kishon torrent swept them away— that ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon! O my soul, march on with strength!
22. Then the horses’ hooves beat from the dashing, the dashing of his mighty steeds.
23. ‘Curse Meroz!’ said the angel of Adonai, ‘Utterly curse its inhabitants, for they came not to the aid of Adonai, to the aid of Adonai among the mighty.’
24. Blessed above women is Yael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in the tent is she blessed.