Judges 5:12

“Awake, awake, Deborah, awake, awake, utter a song , etc.] Either perceiving some languor and remissness in her spirits, while she was delivering this song, and therefore arouses herself to attend to this service with more ardour and zeal; or rather finding herself more impressed with a sense of the great and good things the Lord had done for Israel, calls upon her soul to exert all its powers in celebrating the praises of the Lord, and therefore repeats the word awake so often as she does: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam ; for though the whole army of Sisera was destroyed, that not a man was left, <070416> Judges 4:16 yet as Barak pursued to Harosheth of the…”

“Deborah incites Barak to carry off as his prey the captive Canaanites and their sheep and cattle (their “captivity”). return to 'Top of Page'”

“Awake - Stir up thyself and all that is within thee, to admire and praise the Lord. This work needs and well deserves the utmost liveliness and vigour of soul. Lead captivity captive - How could this be done, when there was none of them left? Jdg 4:16. None were left to make head against them. None is often put for few, and those few might be taken after the battle, and carried captive, and led in triumph. Judges 5:13”

“Deborah: Psa 57:8, Psa 103:1, Psa 103:2, Psa 108:2; Isa 51:9, Isa 51:17, Isa 52:1, Isa 52:2, Isa 60:1; Jer 31:26; Co1 15:34; Eph 5:14 lead: Psa 68:18; Isa 14:2, Isa 33:1, Isa 49:24-26; Eph 4:8; Ti2 2:26 Judges 5:13”

“Jdg 5:12 forms the introduction to the second part, viz., the description of the conflict and the victory. Throwing herself into the great event which she is about to commemorate, Deborah calls upon herself to strike up a song, and upon Barak to lead off his prisoners: 12 Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Rise up, Barak, and lead captive thy captives, O son of Abinoam! עוּרי has the tone upon the last syllable on the first two occasions, to answer to the rapid summoning burst of the Lord in the opening address (Bertheau). שׁבי שׁבה, to lead away captives, as the fruit of the victory; not merely to lead in triumph. On the form וּשׁבה with Chateph-patach, see Ewald, 90, b. In…”