Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 255

‘ My heart aches for Reuben's absence; Why stayed he among the sheep- folds, T0 hear the cries of his flocks ? My heart aches for Reuben’s absence! ‘Ghi1ad remained beyond the jordan; But why stayed Dan in his ships? And Ashur rest on the shore of the sea, And continue to lie in his ports? ‘Zebulon’s men risked their lives to death, With Naphthali from the high- Kings- came out to the war, Like Canan’s Kings at Thanak, Who fought by the Brook of Megiddo; They took no silver as plunder; The stars, they fought from the skies,-~ The stars from their high course fought against Sisera ! The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river- the river Rush strongly along, my life! How the hoofs of the horses sound, Wi-th their mighty leapings and prancings! ‘Curse Meroz,* said the man of the Loan, ‘ When cursing, curse its people, For they came not with help to the Loan, To help the LORD and His heroes! ’ But bless the children of jael, The wife of Heber the Kenite, Bless all the sons of her tent. ‘He asked her water,——-—she gave him milk l She offered him butter on a beauti- ful dish! Then she stretched her hand to 26 the nail, Her right hand to the workman’s hammer, And Sisera pierced through his head, And broke, and drove through his temples! At her feet he bowed,-—-— fell 27 downp- At her feet he bowed,—— fell down,— When he bowed, he fell down Sisera’s mother, 28 at the evening hour-, Bent and watched from her window ;——- ‘What prevents his chariot’s return ? What delays the tramp of his chargers? ’ Her wise women answered to 29 her,-~— Nay, continued her words to herself, ‘Have they not found plenty of 30 plunder? A lovely girl for the generals, And a plunder of robes for Sisera? A plunder of robes embroidered, Embroidered robes for the necks DEBORAH, BARAK, AND 'l`R0oPs. 31 ‘ LORD l thus destroy Your foes : But let Your friends march on, Like the sun in his glory! After this the country rested for forty years. (ac. 1256.) Mihian rmzqzxzrs the

Zsrazlitzx.-—®p;1rzzsi¤¤ ami! Quarzhg rampant. Then the Israelites did wrong in

the eyes of the EVER-L1v1NG, so the Evan-Lxvmo gave them to the hand of Midian twelve years. And the power of Midian was so strong over Israel, that the Israelites made for themselves entrenchments in the mountains, and caves, and towers; and if the Israelites sowed, then Midian, and Amalek, and the Beni- Kedem came upon and assailed them and wasted the whole breadth of the country to the pass of Gaza