Exodus 15:1-20, Judges 5:1-31 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Exodus 15:1-20

The Song of Moses and Israel

^aThen Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Yahweh ¹and said,

“²^bI will sing to Yahweh, for He ³is highly exalted;

^cThe horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.

¹^aYah is my strength and song,

And He has become my salvation;

^bThis is my God, and I will praise Him;

^cMy father’s God, and I will ^dextol Him.

^aYahweh is a warrior;

^bYahweh is His name.

^aPharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;

And the choicest of his officers are sunk in the ¹Red Sea.

The deeps cover them;

^aThey went down into the depths like a stone.

^aYour right hand, O Yahweh, is majestic in power,

^bYour right hand, O Yahweh, shatters the enemy.

And in the greatness of Your ¹exaltation You ^apull down those who rise up against You;

^bYou send forth Your burning anger, and it ^cdevours them as chaff.

^aAnd at the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,

^bThe flowing waters stood up like a heap;

The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

^aThe enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will ^bdivide the spoil;

My ¹desire shall be fulfilled against them;

I will draw out my sword, my hand will dispossess them.’

^aYou blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;

^bThey sank like lead in the ¹mighty waters.

^aWho is like You among the gods, O Yahweh?

Who is like You, ^bmajestic in holiness,

^cFearsome in praises, ^dworking wonders?

^aYou stretched out Your right hand,

The earth swallowed them.

In Your lovingkindness You have ^aguided the people whom You have ^bredeemed;

In Your strength You have led them ^cto Your holy habitation.

^aThe peoples have heard, they tremble;

Anguish has seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

Then the ^achiefs of Edom were dismayed;

^bThe leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them;

^cAll the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

^aTerror and dread fall upon them;

^bBy the greatness of Your arm they are still as stone;

Until Your people pass over, O Yahweh,

Until the people pass over whom You ^chave purchased.

^aYou will bring them and ^bplant them in ^cthe mountain of Your inheritance,

^dThe place, O Yahweh, which You have made for You to inhabit,

^eThe sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

^aYahweh shall reign forever and ever.”

19 ^aFor the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on ^bdry land through the midst of the sea.
20 ^aAnd Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the ^btambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with ¹^cdancing.

Judges 5:1-31

The Song of Deborah and Barak

^aThen Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
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“^aWhen ¹the leaders led in Israel,

When ^bthe people volunteered,

Bless Yahweh!

Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers!

^aAs for me, to Yahweh, I will sing;

I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

^aO Yahweh, when You went out from Seir,

When You marched from the field of Edom,

^bThe earth quaked, the heavens also dripped,

Even the clouds dripped water.

^aThe mountains ¹flowed at the presence of Yahweh,

^bThis Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

“In the days of ^aShamgar the son of Anath,

In the days of ^bJael, the paths had ceased,

So travelers ¹went by ²roundabout paths.

The peasantry ceased; they ceased in Israel,

Until I, Deborah, arose,

Until I arose, a mother in Israel.

¹^aGod chose new leaders;

Then war was in the gates.

Not a shield or a spear was seen

Among forty thousand in Israel.

My heart goes out to ^athe commanders of Israel,

The volunteers among the people;

Bless Yahweh!

^aYou who ride on ¹white donkeys,

You who sit on rich carpets,

And you who travel on the road—muse aloud!

At the sound of those who divide flocks among ^athe watering places,

There they shall ¹commemorate ^bthe righteous deeds of Yahweh,

The righteous deeds for His ²peasantry in Israel.

Then the people of Yahweh went down ^cto the gates.

“^aAwake, awake, Deborah;

Awake, awake, ¹utter a song!

Arise, Barak, and ^btake away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

Then survivors came down to the mighty ones;

The people of Yahweh came down to me as warriors.

From Ephraim those whose root is ^ain Amalek came down,

Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples;

From Machir commanders came down,

And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of a scribe.

And ¹the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;

As was Issachar, so was Barak;

Into the valley they rushed ^aat his ²heels;

Among the divisions of Reuben

There was great persistence of the heart.

Why did you sit among ^athe ¹sheepfolds,

To hear the whistling for the flocks?

Among the divisions of Reuben

There were great probings of the heart.

^aGilead dwelt across the Jordan;

And why did Dan stay in ships?

Asher sat at the seashore,

And dwelt by its landings.

^aZebulun was a people who despised their lives even to death,

And Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

“^aThe kings came and fought;

Then fought the kings of Canaan

^bAt Taanach near the waters of Megiddo;

^cThey took no gain of silver.

^aThe stars fought from heaven;

From their courses they fought against Sisera.

The river of Kishon swept them away,

The ancient river, the river Kishon.

^aO my soul, march on with strength.

^aThen the horses’ hoofs beat

From the dashing, the dashing of his ¹valiant steeds.

‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of Yahweh,

‘Utterly curse its inhabitants,

^aBecause they did not come to the help of Yahweh,

To the help of Yahweh against the warriors.’

“^aMost blessed of women is Jael,

The wife of Heber the Kenite;

Most blessed is she of women in the tent.

He asked for water, and she gave him milk;

In a mighty bowl she brought him curds.

She sent forth her hand for the tent peg,

And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer.

Then she beat Sisera; she smashed his head,

And she crushed and pierced his temple.

Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;

Between her feet he bowed, he fell;

Where he bowed, there he fell violently devastated.

“Out of the window she looked and lamented,

The mother of Sisera through the ¹lattice,

‘Why does his chariot delay in coming?

Why do the ²hoofbeats of his chariots tarry?’

Her wise princesses would answer her,

Indeed she repeats her words to herself,

‘^aAre they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?

A maiden, two maidens for every mighty man;

To Sisera a spoil of dyed work,

A spoil of dyed work embroidered,

Dyed work of double embroidery on the ¹neck of the spoil?’

^aThus let all Your enemies perish, O Yahweh;

^bBut let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”

And the land was quiet for forty years.