5 The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.
5 The mountains melted
5 The mountains quaked before the Lord, even Sinai before the Lord, the God of Israel.
5 Mountains leapt before God, the Sinai God, before God, the God of Israel.
5 The mountains gushed before the Lord, This Sinai, before the Lord God of Israel.
5 The mountains quaked in the presence of the Lord, the God of Mount Sinai- in the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.
4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
4 And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
4 Mountains sink under his feet, valleys split apart; The rock mountains crumble into gravel, the river valleys leak like sieves.
4 The mountains will melt under Him, And the valleys will split Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.
4 The mountains melt beneath his feet and flow into the valleys like wax in a fire, like water pouring down a hill.
(Read Micah 1:1-7)
The earth is called upon, with all that are therein, to hear the prophet. God's holy temple will not protect false professors. Neither men of high degree, as the mountains, nor men of low degree, as the valleys, can secure themselves or the land from the judgments of God. If sin be found in God's people he will not spare them; and their sins are most provoking to him, for they are most reproaching. When we feel the smart of sin, it behoves us to seek what is the sin we smart for. Persons and places most exalted, are most exposed to spiritual diseases. The vices of leaders and rulers shall be surely and sorely punished. The punishment answers the sin. What they gave to idols, never shall prosper, nor do them any good. What is got by one lust, is wasted on another.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 5:5
Commentary on Judges 5:1-5.
(Read Judges 5:1-5.)
No time should be lost in returning thanks to the Lord for his mercies; for our praises are most acceptable, pleasant, and profitable, when they flow from a full heart. By this, love and gratitude would be more excited and more deeply fixed in the hearts of believers; the events would be more known and longer remembered. Whatever Deborah, Barak, or the army had done, the Lord must have all the praise. The will, the power, and the success were all from Him.