Judges 5:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ The peasantry prospered in Israel; they grew fat on plunder, because you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The villages were unoccupied and rulers ceased in Israel until you arose–you, Deborah, arose–a mother in Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.

Common English Bible

⁷ Villagers disappeared; they disappeared in Israel, until you, Deborah, arose, until you arose as a mother in Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The strong men ceased, and they rested in Israel, until Deborah rose up, until a mother rose up in Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel until Debbora arose: a mother arose in Israel.

Judges 5:7 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:19

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

Esther 9:19

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, a holiday on which they send gifts of food to one another.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.

Romans 16:13

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and greet his mother—a mother to me also.

Judges 5:6

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased, and travelers kept to the byways.

Judges 5:8

When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?