1 Naquele dia, Débora cantou este cântico, com Barac, filho de Abinoem:
2 Desatou-se a cabeleira em Israel, o povo ofereceu-se para o combate: bendizei o Senhor!
3 Reis, ouvi! Estai atentos, ó príncipes! Sou eu, eu que vou cantar ao Senhor. Vou proferir um salmo ao Senhor, Deus de Israel!
4 Senhor, quando saístes de Seir, quando surgistes dos campos de Edom, a terra tremeu, os céus se entornaram, as nuvens desfizeram-se em água,
5 abalaram-se as montanhas diante do Senhor, nada menos que o Sinai, diante do Senhor, Deus de Israel!
6 Nos dias de Samgar, filho de Anat, nos dias de Jael, estavam desertos os caminhos, e os viajantes seguiam veredas tortuosas.
7 Desertos se achavam os campos em Israel, desertos, senão quando eu, Débora, me levantei, me levantei como uma mãe em Israel.
8 Israel escolhera deuses novos, e logo a guerra lhe bateu às portas, e não havia um escudo nem uma lança entre os quarenta mil de Israel.
9 Meu coração bate pelos chefes de Israel, pelos que se ofereceram voluntariamente entre o povo: bendizei o Senhor!
10 Vós que cavalgais jumentas brancas, sentados sobre tapetes, a galopar pelas estradas, cantai!
11 A voz dos arqueiros, junto dos bebedouros, celebre as vitórias do Senhor, as vitórias dos seus chefes em Israel! Então o povo do Senhor desceu às portas.
12 Desperta, desperta, Débora! Desperta, desperta, canta um hino! Levanta-te, Barac! Toma os teus prisioneiros, filho de Abinoem!
13 E agora descei, sobreviventes do meu povo. Senhor, descei para junto de mim entre estes heróis.
14 De Efraim vêm os habitantes de Amalec; seguindo-te, marcha Benjamim com as tropas; de Maquir vêm os príncipes, e de Zabulon os guias com o bastão.
15 Os príncipes de Issacar estão com Débora; Issacar marcha com Barac e segue-lhe as pisadas na planície. Junto aos regatos de Rubem grandes foram as deliberações do coração.
16 Por que ficaste junto ao aprisco, a ouvir a música dos pastores? Junto aos regatos de Rubem grandes foram as deliberações do coração.
17 Galaad ficou em sua casa, além do Jordão; e Dã, por que habita junto dos navios? Aser assentou-se à beira do mar e ficou descansando nos seus portos.
18 Zabulon, porém, é um povo que desafia a morte, e da mesma forma Neftali, sobre os planaltos.
19 Vieram os reis e travaram combate; e travaram combate os reis de Canaã em Tanac, junto às águas de Magedo; mas não levaram espólio em dinheiro.
20 Desde o céu as estrelas combateram, de suas órbitas combateram contra Sísara,
21 e a torrente de Cison os arrastou, a velha torrente, a torrente de Cison. Marcha, ó minha alma, resolutamente!
22 Ouviu-se, então, o troar dos cascos dos cavalos, ao tropel, ao tropel dos cavaleiros.
23 Amaldiçoai Meroz, disse o Anjo do Senhor, amaldiçoai, amaldiçoai seus habitantes! Porque não vieram em socorro do Senhor, em socorro do Senhor, com os guerreiros.
24 Bendita seja entre as mulheres Jael, mulher de Heber, o quenita! Entre as mulheres da tenda seja bendita!
25 Ao que pediu água ofereceu leite; serviu nata em taça nobre.
26 Com uma das mãos segurou o prego, e com a outra o martelo de operário, e malhou Sísara, espedaçando-lhe a cabeça, e esmagou-lhe a fonte e a transpassou.
27 Aos seus pés ele vergou, tombou, ficou; aos seus pés ele vergou, tombou. Onde vergou, ali tombou abatido!
28 Da janela, através das persianas, a mãe de Sísara olha e clama: Por que tarda em chegar o seu carro?! Por que demoram tanto as suas carruagens?!
29 As mais sábias das damas lhe respondem, e ela mesma o repete a si própria:
30 Devem ter achado despojos, e os repartem: uma moça, duas moças para cada homem, despojos de tecidos multicores para Sísara, despojos de tecidos multicores, recamados; uma veste bordada, dois brocados, para os ombros do vencedor.
31 Assim pereçam, Senhor, todos os vossos inimigos! E os que vos amam sejam como o sol quando nasce resplendente.
32 E repousou a terra durante 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.