Exodus 15:20

20Then aMiriam bthe prophetess, the csister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and dall the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.

Judges 5

The Song of Deborah and Barak

1 eThen sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:

2 “That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
that fthe people offered themselves willingly,
bless the Lord!
3 Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;
to the Lord I will sing;
I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.
4 Lord, gwhen you went out from Seir,
when you marched from the region of Edom,
hthe earth trembled
and the heavens dropped,
yes, the clouds dropped water.
5The mountains iquaked before the Lord,
jeven Sinai before the Lord, the God of Israel.
6 “In the days of kShamgar, son of Anath,
in the days of lJael, mthe highways were abandoned,
and travelers kept to the byways.
7The villagers ceased in Israel;
they ceased to be until I arose;
I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.
8 nWhen new gods were chosen,
then war was in the gates.
oWas shield or spear to be seen
among forty thousand in Israel?
9My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
who poffered themselves willingly among the people.
Bless the Lord.
10 “Tell of it, qyou who ride on white donkeys,
you who sit on rich carpets
The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; it may connote saddle blankets

and you who walk by the way.
11To the sound of musicians
Or archers; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
at the watering places,
there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the Lord,
the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.
“Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
12 tAwake, awake, Deborah!
Awake, awake, break out in a song!
Arise, Barak, ulead away your captives,
O son of Abinoam.
13Then down marched the remnant of the noble;
the people of the Lord marched down for me against the mighty.
14From vEphraim their root wthey marched down into the valley,
Septuagint; Hebrew in Amalek

following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen;
from yMachir marched down the commanders,
and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant’s
Hebrew commander’s
staff;
15the princes of Issachar came with Deborah,
and Issachar faithful to aaBarak;
into the valley they rushed at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
16Why did you sit still abamong the sheepfolds,
to hear the whistling for the flocks?
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
17 acGilead stayed beyond the Jordan;
adand Dan, why did he stay with the ships?
aeAsher sat still afat the coast of the sea,
staying by his landings.
18 agZebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death;
ahNaphtali, too, on the heights of the field.
19 “The kings came, they fought;
then fought the kings of Canaan,
at aiTaanach, by the waters of ajMegiddo;
akthey got no spoils of silver.
20 alFrom heaven the stars fought,
from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21 amThe torrent Kishon swept them away,
the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
March on, my soul, with might!
22 Then loud beat the horseshoofs
with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.
23 Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,
curse its inhabitants thoroughly,
anbecause they did not come to the help of the Lord,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
24 “Most blessed of women be aoJael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
25 apHe asked for water and she gave him milk;
she brought him curds in a noble’s bowl.
26 aqShe sent her hand to the tent peg
and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet;
she struck Sisera;
she crushed his head;
she shattered and pierced his temple.
27Between her feet
he sank, he fell, he lay still;
between her feet
he sank, he fell;
where he sank,
there he felldead.
28 arOut of the window she peered,
the mother of Sisera wailed through asthe lattice:
Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
29Her wisest princesses answer,
indeed, she answers herself,
30‘Have they not found and atdivided the spoil?—
A womb or two for every man;
spoil of dyed materials for Sisera,
spoil of dyed materials embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’
31 auSo may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
But your friends be avlike the sun awas he rises in his might.”
axAnd the land had rest for forty years.

Psalms 68:25

25 aythe singers in front, azthe musicians last,
between them bavirgins playing tambourines:

Revelation of John 19:13

13He is clothed in bba robe dipped in
Some manuscripts sprinkled with
blood, and the name by which he is called is bdThe Word of God.
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