Judges 5:3-5

New English Translation

³Hear, O kings!
Pay attention, O rulers!
I will sing to the Lord!^[a]
I will sing^[b] to the Lord God of Israel!
⁴O Lord, when you departed^[c] from Seir,

when you marched from Edom’s plains,
the earth shook, the heavens poured down,
the clouds poured down rain.^[d]
⁵The mountains trembled^[e] before the Lord, the God of Sinai;^[f]
before the Lord God of Israel.

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Footnotes

Judges 5:3 tn Heb “I, to the Lord, I, I will sing!” The first singular personal pronoun is used twice, even though a first person finite verbal form is employed.
Judges 5:3 tn Or “make music.”
Judges 5:4 tn Or “went out.”
Judges 5:4 tn Heb “water.”
Judges 5:5 tn Or “quaked.” The translation assumes the form נָזֹלּוּ (nazollu) from the root זָלַל (zalal, “to quake”; see HALOT 272 s.v. II זלל). The LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum also understood the word this way. (See Isa 63:19 and 64:2 for other occurrences of this form.) Some understand here the verb נָזַל (nazal, “to flow [with torrents of rain water]”).
Judges 5:5 tn Heb “this one of Sinai.” The phrase is a divine title, perhaps indicating that the Lord rules from Sinai.

Judges 5:3-5

New International Version

³“Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers!
I, even I, will sing to^[a] the Lord;^(A)
I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.^(B)

⁴“When you, Lord, went out^(C) from Seir,^(D)
    when you marched from the land of Edom,
the earth shook,^(E) the heavens poured,
    the clouds poured down water.^(F)
⁵The mountains quaked^(G) before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.