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12.Awake, awake, Deborah, Awake, awake - utter the song; Arise, Barak, and lead captive
thy captives, son of Abinoam!
13.Then went down a remnant of the mighty, of the people, Jehovah went down for me
among the heroes!
14.From out of Ephraim - his root in Amalek;^229 After thee: Benjamin among thy
nations^230 - From Machir^231 come down they who bear rule, From Zebulon who draw
out with the staff of the writer.^232
15.But the princes of Issachar were with Deborah - And Issachar the foundation^233 of
Barak, Pouring on foot into the valley! By the brooks of Reuben great resolves of
heart^234
16.Why abodest thou among the folds To hear the flutes of the flocks? By the brooks of
Reuben great ponderings of heart!
17.Gilead dwells on the other side Jordan!^235 And Dan, who pass upon ships? Asher sitteth
by the sea-shore, And by its bays resteth!
18.Zebulon a people that jeoparded its life unto death, And Naphtali on the heights of the
field!
19.Came kings - warred - Then warred the kings of Canaan, In Taanach, by the waters of
Megiddo - Spoil of silver took they none!
20.From heaven warred, The stars out of their paths warred against Sisera!
21.The river Kishon swept them away, River of encounters,^236 River Kishon! March forth
my soul in strength!
22.Then clattered the hoofs of the horse From the racing and chasing^237 of his mighty.
23.Curse ye Meroz,^238 saith the Angel of Jehovah, Curse ye -cursed its inhabitants, For
they came not to the help of Jehovah, The help of Jehovah against the mighty!
PART III.
24.Blessed among women, Jael, The wife of Heber, the Kenite, Among women in the
tent^239 blessed!
25.Water asked he - milk she gave, In the cup of the noble^240 brought she thickened milk^241
26.Her hand to the tent-nail sendeth forth, And her right hand to the ponderous hammer of
workmen - Hammers^242 she Sisera, shivers (see endnote 242) his head, Cleaves (see
endnote 242) and pierces his temple!
27.Between her feet he winds - he falls - he lies - Between her feet he winds - he falls -
Where he winds there he falls desolated!^243
28.High up through the window spies - anxiously she calls, The mother of Sisera - cut
through the lattice: 'Why tarrieth his chariot to come, Why linger the steps of his war-
chariots?'
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