Praise ye the Lord— Full of gratitude for this signal mark of divine favour, Deborah begins her song with a noble acknowledgment of God's assistance, and, as usual in poems of this kind, bursts forth in the next verse into a fine apostrophe, with all that variety of change in numbers and persons, which so eminently distinguishes the Hebrew poetry. Houbigant renders this clause,
Because the leaders of Israel undertook the war, Because the people willingly offered themselves, praise ye the Lord.
In which version, as he observes, the clauses correspond, as is usual in this kind of poetry.