旧约 - 士师记(Judges)第5章

Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
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.
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.
The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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?
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.
士师记第五章   第 5 章 

  士 5 章 > 底波拉的诗歌的主题是什么?分为几个层次? 

  5 章 音乐与歌唱是以色列文化中宝贵的一部分。第五章可能是底波拉与巴拉所写所唱的一首诗歌。它将第四章所记载的以色列人大获全胜的故事配上音乐,在欢庆时唱出。它将得胜的光荣归于神,宣告祂的伟大。这是传播奇妙的故事,并将其传给世世代代的极好方法。(出埃及记 15 章的注释列出了圣经里的其他诗歌。) 

  士 5 章 > 唱赞美诗时,你是陶醉在音乐中,还是沉浸在与神的相遇中? 

  5 章 底波拉与巴拉得胜以后,唱出对神的颂赞。赞美诗使我们专心一意地注目神,使我们发出属灵的欢呼,且不忘记神的信实与美德。不管你是经历重大胜利,或是进退两难,唱出对神的颂赞,必能使你信心更足。 

  士 5:8> 决志信主之后,人也可能会去“选择新神”,我有没有这方面的动摇? 

  5:8 以色列人选择事奉假神,就必然有争战。神虽然给他们明令,他们并未认真遵行。国民的生活不是以神为主,境外的压力很快会大过内部的抵抗力,当然容易受仇敌掠夺。你如果渴望得人赏识、想得权力、贪爱金钱,甚至让这些管理你一生的话,你就会觉得四面受敌──有压力、忧虑、疾病、疲劳困扰你。你要以神作你生活的中心,与这些仇敌争战的时候,就会得着所需的力量。 

  士 5:15-17> 有哪些以色列支派没有出兵协助底波拉作战?原因何在? 

  5:15-17 底波拉谴责没有派兵协助这一场战争的四个支派的人:吕便、基列地的迦得或是玛拿西支派、但与亚设。这里没有说明他们不肯协助同胞作战的原因,可能与当初没有赶出迦南人的原因相同:( 1 )他们不相信神的帮助,( 2 )不振作,( 3 )惧怕仇敌,( 4 )恐怕激起与他们有生意来往之人的仇恨,因为他们从这些人身上致富。他们这样的不顺服神,显明对神的旨意毫不热心。──《灵修版圣经注释》