The towns were not inhabited: they decayed, I say, in Israel, until I Deborah came up, which rose up a [a]mother in Israel.

They chose new gods: then was war in the gates. Was there a [b]shield or spear seen among forty thousand of Israel?

Mine heart is set on the governors of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:7 Miraculously stirred up of God to pity them and deliver them.
  2. Judges 5:8 They had no heart to resist their enemies.

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