At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying:

Give attention, O kings give ear, O rulers I, even I, will make a song to the Lord I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

Country towns were no more in Israel, ***were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.

Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.

Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.

Then the chiefs went down to the doors the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.

Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah and Naphtali was true to Barak into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart.

Gilead was living over Jordan and Dan was waiting in his ships Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets.

The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money.

The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!

A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.

His request was for water, she gave him milk she put butter before him on a fair plate.

Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out bent at her feet he went down where he was bent down, there he went down in death.

Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,

So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.

And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them

For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents they came like the locusts in number they and their camels were without number and they came into the land for its destruction.

And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,

And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land

Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.

Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian.

And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me.

Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there.

Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.

But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you have no fear: you are in no danger of death.

The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,

Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night.

And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And after searching with care, they said, Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing.

But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

And he sent through all Manasseh, and they came after him and he sent to Asher and Zebulun and Naphtali, and they came up and were joined to the others.

See, I will put the wool of a sheep on the grain-floor if there is dew on the wool only, while all the earth is dry, then I will be certain that it is your purpose to give Israel salvation by my hand as you have said.

Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew.

And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.

He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain

And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

And crying out with a loud voice he said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, do not be cruel to me.

And Jesus said, What is your name? And he made answer, My name is Legion, because there are a great number of us.

Now on the mountain side there was a great herd of pigs getting their food.

And he let them do it. And the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea, about two thousand of them and they came to their death in the sea.

And they came to Jesus, and saw the man in whom had been the evil spirits seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, and they were full of fear.

And they made a request to him to go out of their country.

And he would not let him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your friends, and give them news of the great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.