Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Parallel translations
- WEB ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
- BSB ‘Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!’
- NKJV “Awake,awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead your captives away, O son of Abinoam!
- NASB ¶“Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, son of Abinoam.
- NLT “Wake up, Deborah, wake up! Wake up, wake up, and sing a song! Arise, Barak! Lead your captives away, son of Abinoam!
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Quick answer
The song rouses Deborah to sing and Barak to lead away his captives.
Overview
The repeated 'awake' calls the leaders to rise to their God-given roles in praise and triumph. Barak's leading of captives marks the completeness of the victory God granted. The verse stirs God's servants to act boldly in the strength He supplies.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Eph 4:8Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
- Ps 68:18Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
- Ps 57:8Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
- 2 Tim 2:26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
- Eph 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- 1 Cor 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
- Jer 31:26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
- Isa 52:1–2Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
- Isa 49:24–26Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
- Isa 33:1Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
- Isa 60:1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
- Isa 14:2And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
- Ps 108:2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
- Isa 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
- Ps 103:1–2Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
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