When they let down their hair in Israel,
    they let it blow wild in the wind.
The people volunteered with abandon,
    bless God!

Hear O kings! Listen O princes!
    To God, yes to God, I’ll sing,
Make music to God,
    to the God of Israel.

4-5 God, when you left Seir,
    marched across the fields of Edom,
Earth quaked, yes, the skies poured rain,
    oh, the clouds made rivers.
Mountains leapt before God, the Sinai God,
    before God, the God of Israel.

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“When the princes in Israel take the lead,
    when the people willingly offer(A) themselves—
    praise the Lord!(B)

“Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers!
    I, even I, will sing to[a] the Lord;(C)
    I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.(D)

“When you, Lord, went out(E) from Seir,(F)
    when you marched from the land of Edom,
the earth shook,(G) the heavens poured,
    the clouds poured down water.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:3 Or of