In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.[ The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
And in those times[ there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations[ were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.