Numbers 21:17

Then Israel sang ¹  this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing about it,

Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

There the Israelites sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Yes, sing about it!

That's where Israel sang this song: Erupt, Well! Sing the Song of the Well,

Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! —Sing to it! —

Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! All of you sing to it––

Then Israel sang ¹  this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

¹ tn After the adverb “then” the prefixed conjugation has the preterite force. For the archaic constructions, see D. N. Freedman, “Archaic Forms in Early Hebrew Poetry,” ZAW 72 (1960): 101-7. The poem shows all the marks of being ancient.