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Judges 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:1 - At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2 - Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:6 - In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:10 - Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:12 - Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:15 - Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:16 - Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:18 - It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:19 - The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:21 - The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22 - Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:26 - She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:27 - Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:29 - Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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