Verse 16
Judges 5:16
English Revised Version
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Why satest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ֣/מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽ/מִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִ/שְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִ/פְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי לֵֽב
English Translation
Why did you sit between the judgments to hear the shouts of the herds for the divisions of Reuben, great is the searchings of the heart?
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Chapter 5 Context
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For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, for that the people offered themselves willingly, bles...
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Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to...
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LORD, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth t...
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The mountains flowed down at the presence of the LORD, even yon Sinai at the presence of the LORD, t...
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In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the...
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The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israe...
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They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousan...
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My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people: bles...
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10
Tell of it, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit on rich carpets, and ye that walk by the way.
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11
Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteo...
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12
Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, tho...
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13
Then came down a remnant of the nobles and the people; the LORD came down for me against the mighty.
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Out of Ephraim came down they whose root is in Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples; out...
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And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; as was Issachar, so was Barak; into the valley they r...
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Why satest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reu...
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Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the...
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18
Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, and Naphtali, upon the high places o...
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The kings came and fought; then fought the kings of Canaan; in Taanach by the waters of Meggido: the...
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They fought from heaven, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
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The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with str...
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Then did the horsehoofs stamp by reason of the pransings, the pransings of their strong ones.
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Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they...
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Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite, blessed shall she be above women in...
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He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought him butter in a lordly dish.
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She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she sm...
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At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell...
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Through the window she looked forth, and cried, the mother of Sisera cried through the lattice, Why...
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Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? a damsel, two damsels to every man; to Sisera...
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So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth fort...
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