3Give 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.
4Lord, 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.
5The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.
6In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
7Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.
8They 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?
9Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.
