Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.
"Whose root is in Amalek"  (Judges 5:14).  Keil gave the meaning of this as indicating that, "Ephraim had settled in the territory once occupied by the Amalekites."[26]  Cundall, however, rejected this, stating that, "There is no evidence of this."[27]  This writer believes that there is probably a prophetic meaning here.  Ephraim, even this early in his history, was no doubt showing signs of that eventual apostasy in which he would usurp the place of God Himself.  Deborah was a resident of the territory of Ephraim, and she was no doubt aware of the direction in which Ephraim was moving.  The Amalekites were sworn enemies of God, and there is a hint here that a root of the same enmity might also be in Ephraim.