(A)The mountains melted before the Lord, (B)as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel.

In the days of (C)Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of  (D)Jael, the highways were [a]unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:6 For fear of the enemies.
  2. Judges 5:7 Miraculously stirred up of God to pity them and deliver them.

The mountains quaked(A) before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,(B)
    in the days of Jael,(C) the highways(D) were abandoned;
    travelers took to winding paths.(E)
Villagers in Israel would not fight;
    they held back until I, Deborah,(F) arose,
    until I arose, a mother in Israel.

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