Liber Iudicum

Iudicum, chapter 5, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 5 Vulgate

   1 Cecineruntque Debora et Barac filius Abinoem in die illo dicen tes:
   2 "Quia comae excussae sunt in Israel, cum sponte se obtulit populus, benedicite Domino!
   3 Audite, reges, percipite auribus, principes; ego sum, ego sum, quae Domino canam, psallam Domino, Deo Israel!
   4 Domine, cum exires de Seir, incederes de regione Edom, terra mota est, caelique stillaverunt, ac nubes stillaverunt aquis;
   5 montes fluxerunt a facie Domini Sinai, a facie Domini, Dei Israel.
   6 In diebus Samgar filii Anath, in diebus Iahel quieverunt semitae; et, qui ingrediebantur per eas, ambulaverunt per calles devios.
   7 Cessaverunt fortes in Israel et quieverunt, donec surgeres, Debora, surgeres mater in Israel.
   8 Elegerunt deos novos; tunc erat pugna in portis. Clipeus et hasta non apparuerunt in quadraginta milibus Israel.
   9 Cor meum diligit principes Israel. Qui sponte obtulistis vos in populo, benedicite Domino!
   10 Qui ascenditis super nitentes asinas et sedetis super tapetia et ambulatis in via, loquimini.
   11 Ad vocem eorum, qui distribuunt aquas ad canales, ibi narrant iustitias Domini, iustitias fortitudinis eius in Israel: tunc descendit populus Domini ad portas.
   12 Surge, surge, Debora; surge, surge et loquere canticum! Surge, Barac, et apprehende captivos tuos, fili Abinoem!
   13 Tunc descenderunt reliquiae ad inclitos, populus Domini descendit pro eo in fortibus.
   14 Ex Ephraim venerunt principes in vallem post te, Beniamin, in populis tuis. De Machir principes descenderunt, et de Zabulon, qui tenent sceptrum, praefecti.
   15 Duces Issachar fuere cum Debora; sic Barac in vallem missus cum peditibus suis. In pagis Ruben magna consilia cordis.
   16 Quare sedebas inter caulas, ut audires sibilos tibiae apud greges? Pagis Ruben magnae investigationes cordis.
   17 Galaad trans Iordanem quiescebat; et Dan cur peregrinus vacabat navibus? Aser habitabat in litore maris et in portibus morabatur.
   18 Zabulon vero obtulit animam suam morti, et Nephthali super excelsa regionis.
   19 Venerunt reges et pugnaverunt, pugnaverunt reges Chanaan in Thanach iuxta aquas Mageddo, praedam argenti non tulere!
   20 De caelo dimicaverunt stellae, cursu suo adversus Sisaram pugnaverunt.
   21 Torrens Cison traxit cadavera eorum, torrens proeliorum, torrens Cison; incede, anima mea, fortiter.
   22 Tunc calcaverunt ungulae equorum in cursu praecipiti fortium suorum.
   23 Maledicite, Meroz, dixit angelus Domini, maledicite habitatoribus eius, quia non venerunt ad auxilium Domini, in adiutorium Domini in fortibus.
   24 Benedicta prae mulieribus Iahel uxor Haber Cinaei, prae mulieribus tabernaculi benedicatur!
   25 Aquam petenti lac dedit et in phiala principum obtulit butyrum.
   26 Sinistram manum misit ad clavum et dextram ad fabrorum malleum: percussitque Sisaram quaerens in capite vulneri locum et tempus valide perforans.
   27 Inter pedes eius ruit, cecidit, iacebat; inter pedes eius ruit, cecidit; ubi ruit, ibi iacebat exanimis.
   28 Per fenestram prospiciens eiulabat mater Sisarae per cancellos: "Cur moratur regredi currus eius? Quare tardant rotae quadrigarum illius?"
   29 Una sapientior ceteris uxoribus respondit ei, et ipsa sibi repetit verba illius:
   30 "Certo nunc dividunt inventa spolia, unam, duas feminas singulis viris; duas vestes diversorum colorum Sisarae in praedam; unam, duas texturas discolores collo meo in praedam"
   31 Sic pereant omnes inimici tui, Domine! Qui autem diligunt eum, rutilent, sicut sol in ortu suo splendet"
   32 Quievitque terra per quadraginta annos.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
   2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
   3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
   4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
   5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
   6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
   7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
   8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
   9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
   10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
   11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
   12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
   13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
   14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
   15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
   16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
   17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
   18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
   19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
   20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
   21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
   22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
   23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
   24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
   25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
   26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
   27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
   28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
   29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
   30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
   31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.