Judges 5:16-23

16Why did you stay in the sheepfolds— to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there was much searching of heart.

17Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan, and Dan, why did he stay by the ships? Asher sat at the seacoast, dwelling by its docks.

18Zebulun is a people who jeopardized their lives to death, and Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.

19The kings came, they fought, then the kings of Canaan fought, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no spoil of silver.

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

21The Kishon torrent swept them away— that ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon! O my soul, march on with strength!

22Then the horses’ hooves beat from the dashing, the dashing of his mighty steeds.

23‘Curse Meroz!’ said the angel of Adonai, ‘Utterly curse its inhabitants, for they came not to the aid of Adonai, to the aid of Adonai among the mighty.’