That I arose a mother in Israel. 
    They chose new gods;
    Then was war in the gates: 
    Was there a shield or spear seen
    Among forty thousand in Israel? 
      My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
    That offered themselves willingly among the people. 
    Bless ye the lord! 
    Speak,
    Ye that ride on white asses,
    Ye that sit in judgment,
    And walk by the way! 
      They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the place of
        drawing water,
    There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the lord,
    Even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in
      Israel: 
    Then shall the people of the lord go down to the gates. 
    Awake, awake, Deborah! 
    Awake, awake, utter a song! 
    Arise, Barak! 
    And lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. 
    Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the
      people: 
    The lord made me have dominion over the mighty. 
    Out of Ephraim was there 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. 
    And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
    Even Issachar, and also Barak: 
    He was sent on foot into the valley. 
    For the divisions of Reuben
    There were great thoughts of heart. 
    Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds,
    To hear the bleatings of the flocks? 
    For the divisions of Reuben
    There were great searchings of heart. 
    Gilead abode beyond Jordan: 
    And why did Dan remain in ships? 
    Asher continued on the sea shore,
    And abode in his breaches. 
    Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives
    Unto the death in the high places of the field. 
      The kings came and fought,
    Then fought the kings of Canaan
    In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo;
    They took no gain of money. 
    They fought from heaven;
    The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. 
    The river Kishon swept them away,
    That ancient river, the river Kishon. 
    O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. 
    Then were the horsehoofs broken
    By the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones. 
      Curse ye Meroz! said the angel of the lord,
    Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof;
    Because they came not to the help of the lord,
    To the help of the lord against the mighty. 
      Blessed above women
    Shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be,
    Blessed shall she be above women in the tent! 
    He asked water, and she gave him milk;
    She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 
    She put her hand to the nail,