12Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.
13Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.
14Out 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.
15Your 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.
16Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?
17Gilead 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.
18It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field.