1 E cantou Débora e Baraque, filho de Abinoão, naquele mesmo dia, dizendo:
2 Louvai ao Senhor pela vingança de Israel, quando o povo se ofereceu voluntariamente.
3 Ouvi, reis; dai ouvidos, príncipes; eu, eu cantarei ao Senhor; salmodiarei ao Senhor Deus de Israel.
4 Ó Senhor, saindo tu de Seir, caminhando tu desde o campo de Edom, a terra estremeceu; até os céus gotejaram; até as nuvens gotejaram águas.
5 Os montes se derreteram diante do Senhor, e até Sinai diante do Senhor Deus de Israel.
6 Nos dias de Sangar, filho de Anate, nos dias de Jael cessaram os caminhos; e os que andavam por veredas iam por caminhos torcidos.
7 Cessaram as aldeias em Israel, cessaram; até que eu, Débora, me levantei, por mãe em Israel me levantei.
8 E se escolhia deuses novos, logo a guerra estava às portas; via-se por isso escudo ou lança entre quarenta mil em Israel?
9 Meu coração é para os legisladores de Israel, que voluntariamente se ofereceram entre o povo; bendizei ao Senhor.
10 Vós os que cavalgais sobre jumentas brancas, que vos assentais em juízo, que andais pelo caminho, falai disto.
11 Donde se ouve o estrondo dos flecheiros, entre os lugares onde se tiram águas, ali falai das justiças do Senhor, das justiças que fez às suas aldeias em Israel; então o povo do Senhor descia às portas.
12 Desperta, desperta, Débora, desperta, desperta, entoa um cântico; levanta-te, Baraque, e leva presos os teus cativos, tu, filho de Abinoão.
13 Então fez dominar sobre os nobres entre o povo, aos que restaram; fez-me o Senhor dominar sobre os poderosos.
14 De Efraim saiu a sua raiz contra Amaleque; e depois de ti vinha Benjamim dentre os teus povos; de Maquir desceram os legisladores, e de Zebulom os que levaram a cana do escriba.
15 Também os principais de Issacar foram com Débora; e como Issacar, assim também Baraque, foi enviado a pé para o vale; nas divisões de Rúben foram grandes as resoluções do coração.
16 Por que ficaste tu entre os currais para ouvires os balidos dos rebanhos? Nas divisões de Rúben tiveram grandes esquadrinhações do coração.
17 Gileade ficou além do Jordão, e Dã por que se deteve nos navios? Aser se assentou na beira dos mares, e ficou junto às suas baías.
18 Zebulom é um povo que expôs a sua vida à morte, como também Naftali, nas alturas do campo.
19 Vieram reis, pelejaram; então pelejaram os reis de Canaã em Taanaque, junto às águas de Megido; não tomaram despojo de prata.
20 Desde os céus pelejaram; até as estrelas desde os lugares dos seus cursos pelejaram contra Sísera.
21 O ribeiro de Quisom os arrastou, aquele antigo ribeiro, o ribeiro de Quisom. Pisaste, ó minha alma, à força.
22 Então os cascos dos cavalos se despedaçaram; pelo galopar, o galopar dos seus valentes.
23 Amaldiçoai a Meroz, diz o anjo do Senhor, acremente amaldiçoai aos seus moradores; porquanto não vieram ao socorro do Senhor, ao socorro do Senhor com os valorosos.
24 Bendita seja entre as mulheres, Jael, mulher de Héber, o queneu; bendita seja entre as mulheres nas tendas.
25 Água pediu ele, leite lhe deu ela; em prato de nobres lhe ofereceu manteiga.
26 À estaca estendeu a sua mão esquerda, e ao martelo dos trabalhadores a sua direita; e matou a Sísera, e rachou-lhe a cabeça, quando lhe pregou e atravessou as fontes.
27 Entre os seus pés se encurvou, caiu, ficou estirado; entre os seus pés se encurvou, caiu; onde se encurvou, ali ficou abatido.
28 A mãe de Sísera olhava pela janela, e exclamava pela grade: Por que tarda em vir o seu carro? Por que se demoram os ruídos dos seus carros?
29 As mais sábias das suas damas responderam; e até ela respondia a si mesma:
30 Porventura não achariam e repartiriam despojos? Uma ou duas moças a cada homem? Para Sísera despojos de estofos coloridos, despojos de estofos coloridos bordados; de estofos coloridos bordados de ambos os lados como despojo para os pescoços.
31 Assim, ó Senhor, pereçam todos os teus inimigos! Porém os que te amam sejam como o sol quando sai na sua força.
32 E sossegou a terra quarenta anos.
1 At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying:
2 Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.
3 Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.
4 Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.
5 The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
7 Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.
8 They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
9 Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.
10 Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.
11 Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.
12 Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.
13 Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.
14 Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod.
15 Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart.
16 Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?
17 Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets.
18 It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field.
19 The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money.
20 The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.
21 The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!
22 Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.
23 A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.
24 Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!
25 His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.
26 She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow.
27 Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death.
28 Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?
29 Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,
30 Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?
31 So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.