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Judges 5:31 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. "
Judges 5:31
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29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
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Judges 5:1
"Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,"
Judges 5:2
"Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves."
Judges 5:3
"Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel."
Judges 5:4
"LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water."
Judges 5:5
"The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel."
Judges 5:6
"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways."
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