3 Hear, kings!Listen, rulers!I, to the Lord, I will sing.I will make music to the Lord, Israel’s God.
4 Lord, when you set out from Seir,when you marched out from Edom’s fields, the land shook,the sky poured down,the clouds poured down water.
5 The mountains quakedbefore the Lord, the one from Sinai,before the Lord, the God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar, Anath’s son,in the days of Jael, caravans ceased.Those traveling by roadkept to the backroads.
7 Villagers disappeared;they disappeared in Israel,until you, Deborah, arose,until you arose as a mother in Israel.
8 When they chose new gods,then war came to the city gates.Yet there wasn’t a shield or spear to be seenamong forty thousand in Israel!
9 My heart is with Israel’s commanders,who willingly offered themselves among the people—bless the Lord!