Judges 5:7
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges 5:7 in other translations
| BSB | Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel. |
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| WEB | The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel. |
| ASV | The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel. |
| YLT | Villages ceased in Israel--they ceased, Till that I arose--Deborah, That I arose, a mother in Israel. |
| DARBY | The villages ceased in Israel, Ceased until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel. |
| BBE | Country towns were no more in Israel, were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel. |
| Webster | The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. |
What does Judges 5:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 5:6-8
6-8. The song proceeds in these verses to describe the sad condition of the country, the oppression of the people, and the origin of all the national distress in the people's apostasy from God. Idolatry was the cause of foreign invasion and internal inability to resist it.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 5:6-11
Deborah describes the distressed state of Israel under the tyranny of Jabin, that their salvation might appear more gracious. She shows what brought this misery upon them. It was their idolatry. They chose new gods, with new names. But under all these images, Satan was worshipped. Deborah was a mother to Israel, by diligently promoting the salvation of their souls. She calls on those who shared the advantages of…
Judges 5:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Judges 5:7
- 2 Samuel 20:19
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?
- Isaiah 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
- Romans 16:13
Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
- Esther 9:19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
- Judges 4:4-6
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth–el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh–naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
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Context
- 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.
- Judges 5:7
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
- Judges 5:8
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges 5:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Las aldeas habían cesado en Israel, habían decaído; hasta que yo Débora me levanté, me levanté madre en Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les villes ouvertes étaient délaissées en Israël, elles étaient délaissées, – jusqu’à ce que je me suis levée, moi Debora, jusqu’à ce que je me suis levée, une mère en Israël. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Es feierten die Landstädte in Israel, sie feierten, bis ich, Debora, aufstand, bis ich aufstand, eine Mutter in Israel. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cessaverunt fortes in Israël, et quieverunt: donec surgeret Debbora, surgeret mater in Israël. |