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Chapter 6 - The Song of Deborah and Barak

On that day Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang the following song:

Praise the Lord! The leaders of the Israelites

took the lead in the war and the people enthusiastically helped!

Listen, you kings! and you leaders! I will sing and play music

to the Lord, the God of Israel. O Lord, when you left Mount Seir and Edom,

shook and rained. Yes, water flowed from the clouds.

The mountains of Sinai trembled before the Lord, the God of Israel.

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,

in the time of Jael, the main street is no longer crowded with traders and the travelers were already there by the small road.

The cities of Israel are forsaken and forsaken

until you come, O Deborah, as a mother in Israel. Is there no war in Israel? at a time when the Israelites were choosing new gods?

Of the 40,000 Israelites, did anyone carry a spear and a shield?

My heart is for the leaders of Israel

and to the people who gladly helped.

Praise the Lord!

Tell this, you who ride on white donkeys

and sat on the muntora and walking down the street.

Listen! The noisy crowd surrounded the well

and speaks of victory of the Lord and of the Israelites.

Then the people of the Lord went out of their cities