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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:
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.
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.
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.
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.
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?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:10 - Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:16 - Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?
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.
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.
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!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22 - Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.
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.
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.
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?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:29 - Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,
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?
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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