n._ And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah--

_Men._ As was Issachar, so was Barak:

_Tutti._ Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet.

_Men._ By the watercourses of Reuben
There were great resolves of heart.

_Women._ Why satest thou among the sheepfolds,
To hear the pipings for the flocks?

_Men._ At the watercourses of Reuben
There were great searchings of heart!

_Women._ Gilead abode beyond Jordan--

_Men._ And Dan, why did he remain in ships?--

_Women._ Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
And abode by his creeks.

_Men._ Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives
unto the death,
And Naphtali upon the high places of the field.

3. THE BATTLE AND ROUT

_Strophe_

_Men._ The kings came and fought;
Then fought the kings of Canaan,
In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo:--
They took no gain of money!

_Antistrophe_

_Women._ They fought from heaven,
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
The river Kishon swept them away,--
That ancient river, the river Kishon!

_Strophe_

_Men._ O my soul, march on with strength!
Then did the horsehoofs stamp
By reason of the pransings,
The pransings of their strong ones.

_Antistrophe_

_Women._ Curse 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!

4. THE RETRIBUTION

_Strophe_

_Men._ Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber
the Kenite,
Blessed shall she be above women in the tent!
He asked water, and she gave him milk;
She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
She put her hand to the nail,
And her right hand to the workman's hammer;
And with the hammer she smote Sisera.
She smote through his head,
Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay:
At her feet he bowed, he fell:
Where he bowed, there he fell down dead!

_Antistro