Judges 5:9-18

⁹My heart is to the lawgivers of Israel, Who are offering themselves willingly among the people, Bless ye Jehovah!

¹⁰Riders on white asses — Sitters on a long robe — And walkers by the way — meditate!

¹¹By the voice of shouters Between the places of drawing water, There they give out righteous acts of Jehovah, Righteous acts of His villages in Israel, Then ruled in the gates have the people of Jehovah.

¹²Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song; Rise, Barak, and take captive thy captivity, Son of Abinoam.

¹³Then him who is left of the honourable ones He caused to rule the people of Jehovah, He caused me to rule among the mighty.

¹⁴Out of Ephraim their root is against Amalek. After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down lawgivers, And out of Zebulun those drawing with the reed of a writer.

¹⁵And princes in Issachar are with Deborah, Yea, Issachar is right with Barak, Into the valley he was sent on his feet. In the divisions of Reuben, Great are the decrees of heart!

¹⁶Why hast thou abode between the boundaries, To hear lowings of herds? For the divisions of Reuben, Great are the searchings of heart!

¹⁷Gilead beyond the Jordan did tabernacle, And Dan — why doth he sojourn in ships? Asher hath abode at the haven of the seas, And by his creeks doth tabernacle.

¹⁸Zebulun is a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also — on high places of the field.