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.
10Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.
11Give 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.