A reading from the book of judges.

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehood died,

and the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazer.

The commander of his army was Cicera, who lived in Heresheth Hagoyam.

Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help,

for he had 900 chariots of iron, and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for 20 years.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit

under the palm of Deborah between Rehma and Bethel

in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

She sent and summoned Bayrak the son of Abinom, from Kedish Naftali, and said to him,

"'Has not the Lord, the God of Israel commanded you. Go gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people

of Naftali and the people of Zebulin, and I will draw out Cicero, the general of Jabin's army,

to meet you by the River Kishin, with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your

hand.

Bayrick said to her, If you will go with me, I will give him into your hand. Beirik said to her,

If you will go with me, I will go.

But if you will not go with me, I will not go.

And she said, I will surely go with you.

Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory,

for the Lord will sell Cicera into the

hand of a woman. Then Deborah arose and went with Bayrak to Kedish, and Bayrak called out

Zebulin and Naftoli to Kedish, and ten thousand men went up at his heels, and Debra went up with

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