In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, The travelers walked through byways.
"Until that I Deborah arose"  (Judges 5:7).  Yates tells us that the Hebrew verb here may be understood either as first person or second person.[17] However, there is no mandate in this fact that requires recent translators to deny the first person.  We agree with Moore in the International Critical Commentary that this verse CONFIRMS the authorship of Deborah for this poem.