1Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, 2Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. 3Hear, 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. 4LORD, 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. 5The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.5.5 melted: Heb. flowed
6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.5.6 travellers: Heb. walkers of paths5.6 byways: Heb. crooked ways 7The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. 8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? 9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. 10Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.5.10 Speak: or, Meditate 11They 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.5.11 righteous…: Heb. righteousnesses
12Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. 13Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. 14Out 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.5.14 handle: Heb. draw with 15And 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.5.15 foot: Heb. his feet5.15 thoughts: Heb. impressions5.15 For: or, In 16Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.5.16 For: or, In 17Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.5.17 shore: or, port5.17 breaches: or, creeks 18Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.5.18 jeoparded: Heb. exposed to reproach 19The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. 20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.5.20 courses: Heb. paths 21The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. 22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.5.22 pransings: or, tramplings, or, plungings 23Curse 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.
24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 26She 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.5.26 with…: Heb. she hammered 27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.5.27 At: Heb. Between5.27 dead: Heb. destroyed 28The 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? 29Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,5.29 answer: Heb. her words 30Have 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?5.30 every…: Heb. the head of a man 31So 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.
Oluyimba lwa Debola
15:1 Kuv 15:1Ku olwo Debola ne Baraki mutabani wa Abinoamu ne bayimba bwe bati:
25:2 a 2By 17:16; Zab 110:3 b nny 9“Mutendereze Mukama
kubanga mu Isirayiri abakulembeze baatuukiriza omulimu gwabwe
n’abantu ne beewaayo nga baagala.
35:3 Zab 27:6“Muwulirize mmwe bakabaka, musseeyo omwoyo mmwe abalangira;
nze kennyini, nze nnaayimbira Mukama;
nze nnaayimbira Katonda w’Abayisirayiri.
45:4 a Ma 33:2 b Zab 68:8“Mukama, bwe wava e Seyiri,
bwe wava mu kitundu kya Edomu okutabaala,
ensi n’ekankana, enkuba n’eyiika okuva mu ggulu.
Weewaawo, ebire ne bifukumuka amazzi.
55:5 Kuv 19:18; Zab 68:8; 97:5; Is 64:3Ensozi ne zikankana awali Mukama, Oyo owa Sinaayi,
ne lukankana mu maaso Mukama Katonda w’Abayisirayiri.
65:6 a Bal 3:31 b Bal 4:17 c Is 33:8“Ku mulembe gwa Samugali, mutabani wa Anasi,
ne ku mulembe gwa Yayeeri abatambuze tebaayitanga, mu nguudo nnene,
baatambuliranga mu mpenda.
7Abakulembeze mu Isirayiri baggwaawo
okutuusa nze Debola lwe nayimuka,
nga nnyina wa bonna mu Isirayiri.
85:8 Ma 32:17Bwe beefunira abakulembeze5:8 abakulembeze, kyokka era Abayisirayiri baali bavudde ku Katonda omulamu nga bagoberera bakatonda abalala abalala,
entalo ne ziryoka zibalukawo mu Isirayiri.
Ku basajja Abayisirayiri emitwalo ena
kwaliko n’omu eyalina effumu oba engabo?
95:9 nny 2Omutima gwange guli eri abakulembeze b’Abayisirayiri,
n’eri abantu abeewaayo nga baagala.
Mutendereze Mukama.
105:10 Bal 10:4; 12:14“Mukyogereko mmwe,
abeebagala ku ndogoyi enjeru,
mmwe abatuula ku biwempe ebirungi ennyo,
nammwe abatambulira mu kkubo. 115:11 a 1Sa 12:7; Mi 6:5 b nny 8Wulira oluyimba lw’abantu ku luzzi,
nga batendereza obuwanguzi era n’ebikolwa bya Mukama eby’obutuukirivu,
ebikolwa bye eby’obutuukirivu nga akulembera Abayisirayiri.
“Awo abantu ba Mukama ne baserengeta,
ne bagenda ku miryango gy’ebibuga byabwe.
125:12 a Zab 57:8 b Zab 68:18; Bef 4:8Zuukuka, zuukuka Debola
zuukuka, zuukuka, okulembere oluyimba;
golokoka, Baraki okulembere
abawambe bo nga basibiddwa, ggwe mutabani wa Abinoamu.
13“Awo abakungu abaasigalawo
ne baserengeta,
abantu ba Mukama,
ne baserengeta okulwanyisa ow’amaanyi.
145:14 Bal 3:13Awo abaava mu kitundu kya Efulayimu ne baserengeta mu kiwonvu,
nga bakugoberera ggwe, Benyamini, n’ab’ekika kyo.
Mu Makiri ne wavaayo abakulembeze, ne baserengeta,
ne mu kitundu kya Zebbulooni ne wavaayo abaduumizi.
155:15 Bal 4:10Abalangira ba Isakaali baali wamu ne Debola;
era Isakaali yali wamu ne Baraki.
Ne bafubutuka okumugoberera mu kiwonvu.
Olw’enjawukana ezaali mu kika kya Lewubeeni,
waaliwo okusooka okufumiitiriza ennyo mu mitima gyabwe.
165:16 Kbl 32:1Kiki ekyakusigaza mu bisibo byo eby’endiga,
okuwuliriza endere zebafuuyira endiga?
Olw’enjawukana ezaali mu kika kya Lewubeeni,
waaliwo okusooka okufumiitiriza ennyo mu mitima gyabwe.
175:17 Yos 19:29Ab’ekika kya Gireyaadi baasigala mitala wa Yoludaani.
N’ab’ekika kya Ddaani ekyabasigaza mu byombo kiki?
Ab’ekika kya Aseri; baasigala ku lubalama lw’ennyanja,
ne babeera awali emyalo gyabwe.
185:18 Bal 4:6, 10Ab’ekika kya Zebbulooni baawaayo obulamu bwabwe,
era n’ab’ekika kya Nafutaali mu ddwaniro.
195:19 a Yos 11:5; Bal 4:13 b Bal 1:27 c nny 30“Ku mugga gw’e Megiddo mu Taanaki,
bakabaka bajja ne balwana,
bakabaka b’e Kanani baalwana.
Naye tebaanyaga bintu.
205:20 Yos 10:11Emunyeenye zaalwana nga zisinziira mu ggulu,
zaalwanyisa Sisera nga bwe zetoloola mu bbanga.
215:21 Bal 4:7Omugga Kisoni gwabasanyizaawo ddala,
omugga ogwo ogw’edda omugga Kisoni.
Ggwe emmeeme yange, kkumba n’amaanyi.
22Awo embalaasi ne zijja nga zirigita
era nga bwe zisambirira ettaka, ensolo zaabwe ezo ez’amaanyi.
23Malayika wa Mukama n’agamba nti, ‘Mukolimire Merozi5:23 Merozi kyali kibuga mu Nafutaali; abantu baamu tebeetabanga mu kulwana ntalo newaakubadde okuwamba abalabe abawanguddwa, abalabe abo ne bwe baabanga badduka.
Mukolimire nnyo ababeera e Merozi;
kubanga tebeetaba mu lutalo lwa Mukama.
Tebaalwetabaamu nga Mukama Katonda alwanyisa ab’amaanyi.’
245:24 Bal 4:17“Nga wa mukisa Yayeeri okusinga abakazi bonna!
Nga wa mukisa Yayeeri mukazi w’Omukeeni Keberi,
okusinga abakazi bonna ababeera mu weema!
255:25 Bal 4:19Bwe yasaba amazzi, yamuwa mata,
era n’amuleetera n’omuzigo mu bbawulo ey’ekikungu.
265:26 Bal 4:21Yakwata enkondo ya weema mu mukono gwe ogwa kkono,
n’ennyondo mu gwa ddyo,
n’akomerera Sisera enkondo
mu kyenyi n’eyita namu.
27Amaanyi gaamuggwa n’agwa;
yagwa ku bigere bya Yayeeri
n’alambaala
we yagwa we yafiira.
285:28 Nge 7:6“Nnyina wa Sisera yalingiriza mu ddirisa;
yayisa amaaso mu ddirisa, n’aleekaanira waggulu nti
‘Kiki ekirwisizza eggaali lye okujja?
Okuguluba kw’eggaali lye nga sikuwulira?’
29Abazaana be abagezi baba tebanamuddamu
ne yeddamu yekka.
305:30 Kuv 15:9; 1Sa 30:24‘Tebazudde omunyago era tebali mu kugugabana,
omuwala omu oba babiri buli musajja?
Sisera tufunye omunyago ogw’engoye enduke ez’amabala?
Eminagiro ebiri emiruke, egy’amabala tegiibe gyange?’
315:31 a 2Sa 23:4; Zab 19:4; 89:36 b Bal 3:11“Ayi Mukama Katonda abalabe bo bazikirirenga bwe batyo nga Sisera.
Naye abo bonna abakwagala bamasemasenga ng’enjuba
ey’akavaayo mu maanyi gaayo.”
Awo ne wayitawo emyaka ana nga Abayisirayiri bali mu mirembe.
