⁷ Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.

¹⁹ Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

¹⁹ So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.

²³ And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

⁴ Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

⁵ (And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)

⁶ And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

¹³ Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.