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Rh :My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
 * That offered themselves willingly among the people.
 * Bless ye the.
 * Ye that ride on white asses,
 * Ye that sit on rich cloths,
 * And ye that walk by the way, tell of it;
 * Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs!
 * There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the ,
 * Even the righteous acts of His rulers in Israel.
 * Then the people of the went down to the gates.


 * Awake, awake, Deborah;
 * Awake, awake, utter a song;
 * Arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
 * Then made He a remnant to have dominion over the nobles and the people;
 * The made me have dominion over the mighty.
 * Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek;
 * After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples;
 * Out of Machir came down governors,
 * And out of Zebulun they that handle the marshal's staff.
 * And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
 * As was Issachar, so was Barak;
 * Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet.
 * Among the divisions of Reuben
 * There were great resolves of heart.
 * Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds,
 * To hear the pipings for the flocks?
 * At the divisions of Reuben
 * There were great searchings of heart.
 * Gilead abode beyond the Jordan;
 * And Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?
 * Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea,
 * And abideth by its bays.
 * Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death,
 * And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.


 * The kings came, they fought;
 * Then fought the kings of Canaan,
 * In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo;
 * They took no gain of money.
 * They fought from heaven,
 * The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
 * The brook Kishon swept them away,
 * That ancient brook, the brook Kishon.
 * O my soul, tread them down with strength.
 * Then did the horsehoofs stamp
 * By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
 * 'Curse ye Meroz', said the angel of the ,
 * 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof,
 * Because they came not to the help of the ,
 * To the help of the against the mighty.'
 * Blessed above women shall Jael be,
 * The wife of Heber the Kenite,
 * Above women in the tent shall she be blessed.
 * Water he asked, milk she gave him;
 * In a lordly bowl she brought him curd.
 * Her hand she put to the tent-pin,
 * And her right hand to the workmen's hammer;
 * And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head,
 * Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.