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Rise, Deborah
Judges 4-5
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About this song
This song belongs to the Judges collection. 8 recordings are available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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[Opening Call]
Awake, awake, Deborah.
Rise, Barak, and lead.
The roads lie empty,
The villages bleed.
A mother in Israel
Has risen to speak;
The Lord calls the willing,
The strong and the weak.
[Verse 1]
Sisera trusted nine hundred iron cars,
Twenty years crushing beneath Canaan's wars.
Deborah summoned Barak from Naphtali's height:
"Draw ten thousand to Tabor and fight."
He would not go unless she came too;
She answered with courage, yet honor would move
Into a woman's hand before evening was through.
[Chorus]
Rise, Deborah, sing of the day
When stars in their courses joined in the fray.
Kishon swept chariots, horses beat vain;
The proud iron wheels sank deep in the rain.
Rise, Deborah, let the willing be praised;
When leaders took courage, the tribes were raised.
[Verse 2]
Sisera fled to the tent of Jael,
Milk in a vessel, a covering fell.
Sleep took the captain who terrorized land;
A tent peg ended the strength of his hand.
Barak arrived, and the enemy lay
Dead in the refuge he sought in that day.
[Final Song]
So let all Thine enemies perish, O Lord;
Let those who love Him rise bright as the sun.
The land rested forty years after the sword;
Deborah sang when the battle was done.

