Judges 5

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

Ɔnam gyidi so de yɛn aba Onyankopɔn adom a yɛte mu mprempren no mu. Yɛn ani gye wɔ anidaso mu sɛ yebenya Onyankopɔn anim anuonyam.

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

Afei yɛn haw mu nso, yɛn ani gye, efisɛ, yenim sɛ ɔhaw de boasetɔ ba,

“When you, Lord, went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the land of Edom,
the earth shook, the heavens poured,
    the clouds poured down water.

na boasetɔ de osuahu ba, ɛna osuahu de anidaso ba.

The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

Saa anidaso yi renni yɛn hwammɔ, efisɛ, Onyankopɔn nam Honhom Kronkron a ɛyɛ n’akyɛde a ɔde ama yɛn no so ahwie ne dɔ agu yɛn koma mu.

“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
    in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned;
    travelers took to winding paths.

Efisɛ, bere a yenni mmoa biara no, Kristo wu maa amumɔyɛfo Onyankopɔn pɛ mu.

Villagers in Israel would not fight;
    they held back until I, Deborah, arose,
    until I arose, a mother in Israel.

Na ɛbɛyɛ den sɛ obi bewu ama nea ɔyɛ onipa trenee po; na nea ɔyɛ onipa pa no de, ebia obi besi ne bo awu ama no.

God chose new leaders
    when war came to the city gates,
but not a shield or spear was seen
    among forty thousand in Israel.

Nanso Onyankopɔn akyerɛ yɛn ɔdɔ a ɔde dɔ yɛn; bere a yɛda so yɛ nnebɔneyɛfo no na Kristo wu maa yɛn.

My heart is with Israel’s princes,
    with the willing volunteers among the people.
    Praise the Lord!

Ɛnam ne wu no so ama yɛasɔ Onyankopɔn ani; ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na wɔatumi agye yɛn nkwa afi Onyankopɔn abufuw mu.

“You who ride on white donkeys,
    sitting on your saddle blankets,
    and you who walk along the road,
consider ¹¹ the voice of the singers^[b] at the watering places.
    They recite the victories of the Lord,
    the victories of his villagers in Israel.

Na yɛyɛ Onyankopɔn atamfo nanso ɔnam ne Ba no wu so ama yɛayɛ ne nnamfo. Afei a yɛyɛ Onyankopɔn nnamfo yi, akyinnye biara nni ho sɛ ɔnam ne Ba no ase a ɔte no so begye yɛn nkwa!

Ɛnyɛ ne nyinaa ni; yɛnam yɛn Awurade Yesu Kristo a afei wayɛ yɛn Onyankopɔn nnamfo no so gye yɛn ani wɔ Onyankopɔn mu.

Adam ne Kristo

‘Wake up, wake up, Deborah!
    Wake up, wake up, break out in song!
Arise, Barak!
    Take captive your captives, son of Abinoam.’

Bɔne nam onipa baako so na ɛbaa wiase na ne bɔne no de owu bae. Ɛno nti owu trɛw baa nnipa nyinaa so, efisɛ, wɔn nyinaa yɛɛ bɔne.

“The remnant of the nobles came down;
    the people of the Lord came down to me against the mighty.

Na bɔne wɔ hɔ ansa na wɔde Mmara no reba. Nanso faako a Mmara nni no, wommu bɔne ho akontaa.

Some came from Ephraim, whose roots were in Amalek;
    Benjamin was with the people who followed you.
From Makir captains came down,
    from Zebulun those who bear a commander’s^[c] staff.

Nanso efi Adam bere so kosi Mose bere so no, owu dii nnipa nyinaa so kosii wɔn mpo a wɔanyɛ bɔne sɛnea Adam de ɔyɛɛ asoɔden kyerɛɛ Onyankopɔn no. Na Adam yɛ obi a ɔreba no sɛso.

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
    yes, Issachar was with Barak,
    sent under his command into the valley.
In the districts of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.

Nanso wɔn baanu no nyinaa nyɛ pɛ, efisɛ, Onyankopɔn akyɛde a ɔde kyɛ kwa no nte sɛ Adam bɔne no. Ɛyɛ nokware sɛ esiane saa onipa baakofo no bɔne nti nnipa pii wuwui. Nanso Onyankopɔn adom no dɔɔso; ɛno nti na ɔnam onipa baako a ɔne Yesu Kristo adom so dom nnipa bebree kwa no.

Why did you stay among the sheep pens^[d]
    to hear the whistling for the flocks?
In the districts of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.

Na nsonoe da Onyankopɔn akyɛde ne bɔne a onipa baako bi yɛ ntam. Bɔne baako akyi no na atemmu a ɛkyerɛ “Afobu” bae; nanso bɔne bebree akyi no na akyɛde a ɛmfata a wɔfrɛ no “Bembu” nso bae.

Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan.
    And Dan, why did he linger by the ships?
Asher remained on the coast
    and stayed in his coves.

Esiane saa onipa baako no nti, ɛyɛ nokware sɛ ɛnam ne bɔne no so na owu bae. Na ade kɛse bɛn na ɛbaa ade a onipa baako a ɔyɛ Yesu Kristo no yɛe no akyi! Wɔn a wɔanya Onyankopɔn adom bebrebe ne ne trenee kwa no nam Yesu Kristo so bedi hene.

The people of Zebulun risked their very lives;
    so did Naphtali on the terraced fields.

Enti sɛnea onipa baako pɛ bɔna a ɔyɛe no ma wobvu nnipa nyinaa fɔ no, saa ara nso na trenee adeyɛ baako ma nnipa de wɔn ho, nya nkwa nso.

“Kings came, they fought,
    the kings of Canaan fought.
At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo,
    they took no plunder of silver.

Na sɛnea ɛnam ɔbaakofo asoɔden so nti nnipa nyinaa yɛ bɔne no, saa ara nso na onipa baako setie nti, nnipa pii bɛsɔ Onyankopɔn ani.

From the heavens the stars fought,
    from their courses they fought against Sisera.

Wɔhyɛɛ mmara sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a bɔne bɛkɔ so; nanso sɛ bɔne kɔ so a, Onyankopɔn adom kɔ so mmoroso.

The river Kishon swept them away,
    the age-old river, the river Kishon.
    March on, my soul; be strong!

Enti sɛnea ɛnam owu so nti bɔne dii nim no, saa ara nso na ɛnam trenee so Onyankopɔn adom di nim nam Yesu Kristo, yɛn Awurade so, de yɛn kɔ nkwa a ɛnsa da mu nen.

Then thundered the horses’ hooves—
    galloping, galloping go his mighty steeds.

‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the Lord.
    ‘Curse its people bitterly,
because they did not come to help the Lord,
    to help the Lord against the mighty.’

“Most blessed of women be Jael,
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,
    most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

He asked for water, and she gave him milk;
    in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.

Her hand reached for the tent peg,
    her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,
    she shattered and pierced his temple.

At her feet he sank,
    he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
    where he sank, there he fell—dead.

“Through the window peered Sisera’s mother;
    behind the lattice she cried out,
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’

The wisest of her ladies answer her;
    indeed, she keeps saying to herself,

‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:
    a woman or two for each man,
colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,
    colorful garments embroidered,
highly embroidered garments for my neck—
    all this as plunder?’

“So may all your enemies perish, Lord!
    But may all who love you be like the sun
    when it rises in its strength.”