12. Get up! Get up, Deborah!Get up! Get up and create a song!Barak, attack! Take your prisoners, son of Abinoam.
13. Then those mighty men who were left came down.The Lord’s people went into battle for me against the mighty soldiers.
14. Those who had settled in Amalek’s countrycame down from Ephraim.Benjamin came with its troopsafter Ephraim.Commanders from Machir went into battle.The officers from Zebulun also went.
15. Issachar’s commanders were with Deborah.They were also with Barak,sent into the valley under his command.Among Reuben’s divisions important men had second thoughts.
16. Why did you sit between the saddlebags?Was it to listen to the shepherds playing their flutes?Reuben’s divisions of important men had second thoughts.
17. Gilead remained east of the Jordan River.And Dan. . . Why did he stay by the ships?Asher sat on the seashore and remained along the inlets.
18. But Zebulun mocked death,and Naphtali risked his life on the battlefield.
19. Kings came and fought.Then the kings of Canaan fought.They fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.But they didn’t carry off any rich loot.
20. The stars fought from heaven.They fought against Sisera from their heavenly paths.
21. The Kishon River swept them away—that old river, the Kishon.I must march on with strength!
22. Then the horses’ hoofs pounded.The mighty war horses galloped on and on.
23. “Curse Meroz!” said the Messenger of the Lord.“Bitterly curse those who live there!They did not come to help the Lord,to help the Lord and his heroes.”
24. Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite,should be the most blessed woman,the most blessed woman living in a tent.