Judges 5:12-21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹² Awake, awake, Deborah!
    Awake, awake, utter a song!
Arise, Barak, lead away your captives,
    O son of Abinoam.^(A)
13 Then down marched the remnant of the nobles;
    the people of the Lord marched down for him^[a] against the mighty.
¹⁴ From Ephraim they set out^[b] into the valley,^[c]
    following you, Benjamin, with your kin;
from Machir marched down the commanders,
    and from Zebulun those who bear the marshal’s staff;^(B)
15 the chiefs of Issachar came with Deborah,
    and Issachar faithful to Barak;
    into the valley they rushed out at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
    there were great searchings of heart.^(C)
16 Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds,
    to hear the piping for the flocks?
Among the clans of Reuben
    there were great searchings of heart.^(D)
17 Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan,
    and Dan, why did he abide with the ships?
Asher sat still at the coast of the sea,
    settling down by his landings.^(E)
18 Zebulun is a people that scorned death;
    Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.^(F)