Judges 5:7
New International Version
Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel.

New Living Translation
There were few people left in the villages of Israel— until Deborah arose as a mother for Israel.

English Standard Version
The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

King James Bible
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

New King James Version
Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Arose a mother in Israel.

New American Standard Bible
“The peasantry came to an end, they came to an end in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel.

NASB 1995
“The peasantry ceased, they ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel.

NASB 1977
“The peasantry ceased, they ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
The peasantry ceased; they ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel.

Amplified Bible
“The villagers ceased to be; they ceased in Israel Until I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel.

Christian Standard Bible
Villages were deserted, they were deserted in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Villages were deserted, they were deserted in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

American Standard Version
The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They cut off the open spaces of Israel, they cut off until I arose; I Debora stood a mother in Israel

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The mighty men in Israel failed, they failed until Debbora arose, until she arose a mother in Israel.

Contemporary English Version
and villagers couldn't work in their fields. Then Deborah took command, protecting Israel as a mother protects her children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel: until Debbora arose, a mother arose in Israel.

English Revised Version
The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Villages in Israel were deserted- deserted until I, Deborah, took a stand- took a stand as a mother of Israel.

Good News Translation
The towns of Israel stood abandoned, Deborah; they stood empty until you came, came like a mother for Israel.

International Standard Version
Rural populations plummeted in Israel; until I, Deborah, arose; until I—an Israeli mother—arose.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that thou didst arise, Deborah, That thou didst arise a mother in Israel.

Literal Standard Version
Villages ceased in Israel—they ceased, | Until I arose—Deborah, | That I arose, a mother in Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

New American Bible
Gone was freedom beyond the walls, gone indeed from Israel. When I, Deborah, arose, when I arose, a mother in Israel.

NET Bible
Warriors were scarce, they were scarce in Israel, until you arose, Deborah, until you arose as a motherly protector in Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
The peasantry prospered in Israel, they grew fat on plunder, because you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

New Heart English Bible
The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

World English Bible
The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
Villages ceased in Israel -- they ceased, Till that I arose -- Deborah, That I arose, a mother in Israel.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Song of Deborah and Barak
6In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways. 7Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel. 8When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.…

Cross References
Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

Judges 5:8
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

the villages

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.

a mother

Judges 4:4-6
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time…

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.

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(7) The inhabitants of the villages ceased.--The one Hebrew word for "the inhabitants of the villages" is perazon. The rendering of our version is supported by the Chaldee, and by the meaning of the analogous words in Deuteronomy 3:5.1Samuel 6:18, &c. But this cannot be the meaning in Judges 5:11; and it is far more probable that the LXX. (Cod. B) is right in rendering it "princes" (dunatoi; Vulgate, fortes), though the difficulty of the word is shown by its being simply transliterated (phrazon) in the Alexandrine MS. The meaning probably is "warlike chiefs" (comp. Habakkuk 3:14). Luther renders it "peasants."

A mother in Israel.--For this metaphor, comp. 2Samuel 20:19; Job 29:16; Genesis 45:8. . . .

Verse 7. - Instead of The inhabitants of the villages ceased, some render the leaders ceased. Till Deborah arose and stirred up Barak, there was no one to put himself at the head of the people.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Life in the villages
פְרָז֛וֹן (p̄ə·rā·zō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6520: Perhaps rural population

ceased,
חָדְל֧וּ (ḥā·ḏə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

it ended
חָדֵ֑לּוּ (ḥā·ḏêl·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

in Israel,
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

until
עַ֤ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

I, Deborah,
דְּבוֹרָ֔ה (də·ḇō·w·rāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1683: Deborah -- two Israelite women

arose,
שַׁקַּ֙מְתִּי֙ (šaq·qam·tî)
Pronoun - relative | Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

a mother
אֵ֖ם (’êm)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

in Israel.
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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