¹Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

¹In pela sta Debora in Barak, sin Abinoamov, tisti dan, govoreč:

²Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

²Hvalite GOSPODA, da so se vodniki postavili na čelo v Izraelu, da je šlo ljudstvo radovoljno v boj!

³Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

³Poslušajte, o kralji, nagnite uho, o knezi: jaz, jaz hočem peti GOSPODU, hvalo čem citrati GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu.

⁴LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

⁴O GOSPOD, ko si šel iz Seira, ko si stopal s poljane Edomske, stresla se je zemlja in nebesa so se rosila, da, oblaki so rosili vodo.

⁵The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

⁵Gore so se raztapljale spričo GOSPODA, Sinaj ondi se je topil pred obličjem GOSPODA, Boga Izraelovega.

⁶In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

⁶V dnevih Samgarja, Anatovega sina, v dnevih Jaela so bile prazne ceste, in popotnikom, vajenim gladkih potov, je bilo hoditi po krivih stezah.

⁷The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

⁷Ni bilo voditeljev v Izraelu, ni jih bilo, dokler nisem vstala jaz, Debora, dokler nisem, vstala, mati v Izraelu.

⁸They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

⁸Izvolil si je novih bogov Izrael; tedaj je bila vojna pred njih vrati, in ščita in sulice ni bilo videti med štiridesetimi tisoči v Izraelu.

⁹My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

⁹Srce moje je vdano voditeljem Izraelovim, radovoljnim med ljudstvom: Hvalite GOSPODA!

¹⁰Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

¹⁰Premišljajte to vi, ki jezdite na belih oslicah, ki sedite na lepih preprogah, in vi, ki greste po poti!

¹¹They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

¹¹Daleč od vpitja strelcev, kjer se zajemlje voda, tam slavé pravična dejanja GOSPODOVA, pravična dejanja njegovega vodstva v Izraelu. Tedaj je doli k vratom šlo ljudstvo GOSPODOVO.

¹²Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

¹²Zbudi se, zbudi, Debora, zbudi se, zbudi, zapoj pesem; vstani, Barak, v ujetništvo pelji ujete svoje, sin Abinoamov.

¹³Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.

¹³Tedaj je stopil doli ostanek plemenitnikov in ljudstva; GOSPOD je zame prišel doli med mogočnimi.

¹⁴Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

¹⁴Iz Efraima so prišli tisti, ki je njih korenina v Amaleku, za teboj, Benjamin, med tvojimi ljudstvi; iz Mahirja so prišli voditelji, in iz Zebulona tisti, ki imajo v rokah vojskovodjevo palico;

¹⁵And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.

¹⁵a knezi Isaharjevi so bili z Deboro, in Isahar je bil enak Baraku; v dolino se je drevil, njemu za petami. Pri Rubenovih potokih so bili veliki sklepi srca.

¹⁶Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

¹⁶Zakaj si sedel med ograjami, da poslušaš piskanje pri čredah? Ob Rubenovih potokih so bile velike presoje srca.

¹⁷Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

¹⁷Gilead je ostal pokojno onostran Jordana, in zakaj se je Dan mudil pri ladjah? Aser je sedel na morskem obrežju in ostal pri svojih zatokih.

¹⁸Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

¹⁸Zebulon je ljudstvo, ki je žrtvovalo življenje svoje do smrti, tudi Neftali na visočinah poljan.

¹⁹The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

¹⁹Kralji so prišli in se bojevali; takrat so se bojevali kralji Kanaancev v Taanahu pri Megidskih vodah: nič srebra niso dobili v plen.

²⁰They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

²⁰Z neba se je vojskovalo – zvezde so se raz svoje tire vojskovale zoper Sisera.

²¹The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

²¹Potok Kison jih je odplavil, tisti potok od nekdaj imeniten, potok Kison. – O duša moja, krepko stopaj naprej!

²²Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

²²Tedaj so topotala kopita konj, ker so jih v dir gonili, gonili njih junaki.

²³Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

²³Preklinjajte Meroz, je dejal angel GOSPODOV, hudo preklinjajte prebivalce njegove, ker niso prišli GOSPODU na pomoč, na pomoč GOSPODU med junaki.

²⁴Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

²⁴Blagoslovljena med ženami bodi Jaela, žena Heberja Kenejskega, blagoslovljena bodi med ženami v šatoru!

²⁵He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

²⁵Prosil je vode, da mu mleka, v gosposki skledici mu prinese smetane.

²⁶She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

²⁶Iztegne roko svojo po klinu in desnico po težkem kladivu, in udari s kladivom Sisera, mu prebije glavo, stare in predere sence njegovo.

²⁷At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

²⁷Pri nogah njenih se zvije, pade, obleži, pri nogah njenih se zvije in zgrudi; kjer se je zvil, tam je obležal mrtev.

²⁸The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

²⁸Skozi okno je gledala mati Siserova in vpila žalostna skozi omrežje: Zakaj se tako dolgo ne pelje voz njegov? Zakaj so tako počasna kolesa voz njegovih?

²⁹Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

²⁹Modre med njenimi kneginjami ji odgovarjajo, tudi ona si ponavlja odgovor svoj:

³⁰Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

³⁰Niso li dobili, ne delijo li plena? ene ali dveh devojk za vsakega moža? Plen pisanega blaga za Sisera, plen pisanih umetnih tkanin, pisane in umetne tkanine za grlo gospe!Tako naj poginejo vsi sovražniki tvoji, o GOSPOD! a kateri ga ljubijo, naj bodo kakor solnce, ko vzhaja v moči svoji! In dežela je imela pokoj štirideset let.

³¹So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

³¹Tako naj poginejo vsi sovražniki tvoji, o GOSPOD! a kateri ga ljubijo, naj bodo kakor solnce, ko vzhaja v moči svoji! In dežela je imela pokoj štirideset let.