Judges 5
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Judges 5:16-23

16Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

17Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings.

18Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.

19"The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.

20From heaven the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.

21The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!

22"Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

23"Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

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