Judges 5:2

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Summary

Judges 5:2

Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

For the avenging

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Bible References

For the avenging

Call for songs of joy, O nations, [concerning] his people, for the blood of his servants he will avenge, {and he will take reprisals against his foes}, and he will make atonement [for] his land, his people."

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! May God, the rock of my salvation, be exalted!

the God who executed vengeance for me, and subdued peoples under me,

Let {Mount Zion} rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

O Yahweh, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth.

Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, O Yahweh.

But he tossed Pharaoh and his army into [the] {Red Sea}, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

Let the extolling of God [be] in their throat, and a double-edged sword in their hand,

And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, the one who is and the one who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these [things],

Rejoice over her, heaven and the saints and the apostles and the prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment on her!"

because his judgments [are] true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves {shed by} her hand!"

When

My heart [goes out] to the commanders of Israel, those offering themselves willingly among the people; bless Yahweh!

and at his side, Amasiah the son of Zicri, who had made a freewill offering to Yahweh, and with him [were] two hundred thousand mighty armed warriors.

And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.

Your people {will volunteer} in the day of your power. In holy splendor, from [the] womb of [the] dawn, you will have the dew of your youth.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if [I do so] unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

For if the eagerness is present {according to what one has}, [it is] acceptable not {according to what one does not have}.

Each one [should give] as he has decided in his heart, not {reluctantly} or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.

But apart from your consent, I wanted to do nothing, in order that your good [deed] might be not as according to necessity, but according to [your own] free will.