Judges 5:2

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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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For the avenging

Shout for joy O ye nations with his people, For the blood of his servants, he avengeth, - And, vengeance, he returneth unto his adversaries, And is propitious unto the soil of his people.

Yahweh liveth, and blessed be my rock, - and exalted be the God (of the rock) of my salvation: -

The GOD, who hath avenged me, - and subjugated peoples under me:

Let Mount Zion rejoice, Let the daughters of Judah exult, Because of thy judgments.

O GOD of avenging - Yahweh, GOD of avenging, shine forth:

Zion, hath heard and rejoiced, And the daughters of Judah, have exulted, Because of thy righteous decisions, O Yahweh:

And shook off Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.

The high songs of GOD be in their throat, and a two-edged sword in their hand:

And I heard the messenger of the waters, saying - Righteous, art thou Who art, and Who wast, Who art full of lovingkindness, - in that, these things, thou hast adjudged;

Be glad over her, thou heaven! And ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets! For that God hath exacted your vindication from her.

Because, true and righteous, are his judgments; because he hath judged the great harlot, who, indeed, corrupted the earth with her lewdness, - and hath avenged the blood of his servants, at her hand.

When

My heart saith - for the governors of Israel, for the volunteers among the people, Bless ye Yahweh!

and, under his direction, Amasiah son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto Yahweh, - and, with him, two hundred thousand heroes of valour.

And the people bestowed a blessing on all the men, who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

Thy people, will freely offer themselves, in the day of thine army, - in the splendours of holiness, out of the womb of the dawn, To thee, shall spring forth the dew of thy youth.

For, if, by choice, this thing I am doing, I have, a reward; but, if not by choice, with a stewardship, have I been entrusted!

For, if the forwardness is set forth, according to what one may have, he is well approved, not according to what one hath not.

Each one, according as he hath purposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of necessity, - for, a cheerful giver, God, loveth.

For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.

But, apart from thy mind, I wished to do, nothing, that, not as by necessity, thy goodness should be, but, by choice.