WEBVTT 00:01.160 --> 00:06.180 Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinuam, on that day, saying, Praise ye 00:06.180 --> 00:09.800 the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered 00:09.800 --> 00:10.320 themselves. 00:10.820 --> 00:12.880 Hear, O ye kings, give ear. 00:13.360 --> 00:17.140 O ye princes, I, even I, will sing unto the Lord. 00:17.320 --> 00:19.980 I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel. 00:20.460 --> 00:24.660 Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchest out of the field of 00:24.660 --> 00:29.660 Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 00:30.020 --> 00:34.660 The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God 00:34.660 --> 00:35.140 of Israel. 00:35.500 --> 00:40.460 In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were 00:40.460 --> 00:43.240 unoccupied and the travelers walked through byways. 00:43.700 --> 00:48.620 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I, 00:48.980 --> 00:52.540 Deborah, arose, that I arose, a mother in Israel. 00:52.540 --> 00:55.800 They chose new gods, then was war in the gates. 00:56.140 --> 00:59.520 Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? 01:00.040 --> 01:04.060 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly 01:04.060 --> 01:05.020 among the people. 01:05.540 --> 01:06.880 Bless ye the Lord. 01:07.420 --> 01:11.900 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment and walk by the 01:11.900 --> 01:12.200 way. 01:12.700 --> 01:16.340 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, 01:16.780 --> 01:19.540 there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. 01:19.540 --> 01:24.100 Even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel. 01:24.820 --> 01:27.660 Then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates. 01:28.020 --> 01:31.880 Awake, awake, Deborah, awake, awake, utter a song. 01:32.240 --> 01:36.920 Arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. 01:37.360 --> 01:41.320 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people. 01:41.880 --> 01:44.180 The Lord made me have dominion over the mighty. 01:44.960 --> 01:48.000 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek. 01:48.000 --> 01:50.280 After thee, Benjamin, among thy people. 01:50.860 --> 01:55.380 Out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handled the 01:55.380 --> 01:56.120 pen of the writer. 01:56.700 --> 01:58.880 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah. 01:59.300 --> 02:02.740 Even Issachar and also Barak, he was sent on foot into the valley. 02:03.240 --> 02:06.320 For the divisions of Reuben, there were great thoughts of heart. 02:06.720 --> 02:10.860 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? 02:11.240 --> 02:14.440 For the divisions of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart. 02:14.440 --> 02:18.420 Gilead abode beyond Jordan, and why did Dan remain in ships? 02:18.900 --> 02:21.940 Asher continued on the seashore, and abode in his breeches. 02:22.420 --> 02:26.820 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in 02:26.820 --> 02:28.160 the high places of the field. 02:28.620 --> 02:33.120 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan and Tayanak, by the waters 02:33.120 --> 02:33.820 of Megiddo. 02:34.100 --> 02:35.580 They took no gain of money. 02:36.020 --> 02:37.260 They fought from heaven. 02:37.620 --> 02:40.220 The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. 02:40.840 --> 02:43.260 The river of Chisholm swept them away. 02:43.260 --> 02:46.500 That ancient river, the river Chisholm. 02:47.020 --> 02:50.320 O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. 02:50.780 --> 02:54.960 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of 02:54.960 --> 02:55.880 their mighty ones. 02:56.380 --> 02:59.180 Curse ye Miraz, said the angel of the Lord. 02:59.520 --> 03:04.140 Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the 03:04.140 --> 03:06.780 Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty. 03:07.520 --> 03:11.460 Blessed above women shall Jeho, the wife of Heber the Kenite, be. 03:11.460 --> 03:14.320 Blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 03:14.720 --> 03:16.760 He asked water, and she gave him milk. 03:17.020 --> 03:19.060 She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 03:19.500 --> 03:22.780 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer. 03:23.080 --> 03:24.780 And with the hammer she smote Sisera. 03:25.020 --> 03:28.520 She smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 03:29.240 --> 03:31.580 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down. 03:31.920 --> 03:35.340 At her feet he bowed, he fell, where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 03:35.740 --> 03:39.000 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.160 Why is his chariot so long and coming? 03:41.560 --> 03:43.280 Why tarry the wheels of his chariots? 03:43.580 --> 03:45.020 Her wise ladies answered her. 03:45.360 --> 03:47.220 Yea, she returned, answered to herself. 03:47.580 --> 03:48.420 Have they not sped? 03:48.860 --> 03:50.320 Have they not divided the prey? 03:50.600 --> 03:55.240 To every man a damsel or two, to Sisera a prey of diverse colors, a prey of diverse 03:55.240 --> 03:58.920 colors of needlework, of diverse colors of needlework on both sides. 03:59.260 --> 04:01.220 Meet for the necks of them that take the spoil. 04:01.220 --> 04:06.700 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord, but let them that love him be as 04:06.700 --> 04:09.180 the sun when he goeth forth in his might. 04:10.000 --> 04:11.960 And the land had rest forty years.