“So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.”
'Thus perish all your enemies, O LORD! But may those who love him be like the sun as it rises in its might.' And the land had rest for forty years. — The Song of Deborah concludes with a prayer formula invoking divine judgment on enemies while blessing the righteous. The image of lovers of God shining 'like the sun as it rises in its might' invokes cosmic blessing imagery. The concluding formula 'the land had rest for forty years' replicates earlier rest formulas, indicating that Deborah's victory produced a full generational peace equivalent to Othniel's forty-year rest and matching the duration of the conquest generation's faithfulness in Joshua's era.
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