Judges 5:1

The title says that the Ode was sung by Deborah and Barak, no doubt on account of the 1st person in Judges 5:3; Judges 5:9; Judges 5:13, and the verb rendered I arosein Judges 5:7. But in Judges 5:12 Deborah herself is addressed by name (cf. Judges 5:15), and in Judges 5:7 the verb can just as correctly be rendered thou didst arise; while the 1st person in Judges 5:3; Judges 5:9; Judges 5:13is readily explained by the love of personification so common in the O.T. (see on Judges 1:3): the poet acts as the mouthpiece of his victorious countrymen. The title represents a traditional view of the Song, but it does not carry more weight than the title of the Song of Moses Exodus 15, or the headings of the Psalms.