12. Rise up, rise up, Deborah; rise up, rise up, sing a song. Stand up, Barak and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13. Now he has made the remnant of the people to have dominion over the magnificent; the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
14. Out of Ephraim came his root against Amalek; after thee, came Benjamin, against thy peoples; out of Machir came down princes; and from Zebulun, those that handle the pen of the writer.
15. Also princes of Issachar were with Deborah; and Issachar, like Barak, went on foot into the valley. From the divisions of Reuben, great are the thoughts of the heart.
16. Why didst thou abide among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? From the divisions of Reuben great are the searchings of the heart.
17. Gilead remained on the other side of the Jordan, and why did Dan remain next to the ships? Asher continued on the sea shore and remained 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 the kings of Canaan fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
20. They fought from the heavens; the stars from their ways fought against Sisera.
21. The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. Tread down, O my soul, with strength.
22. Then were the hoofs of the horses 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 did not come 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 cream in a lordly dish.