Judges 5:20–30

²⁰From heaven fought the stars,

From their courses they fought against Sisera.

²¹The river Kishon swept them away,

That ancient river, the river Kishon.

O my soul, march on with strength.

²²Then did the horsehoofs stamp

By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

²³Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah.

Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof,

Because they came not to the help of Jehovah,

To the help of Jehovah against the mighty.

²⁴Blessed above women shall Jael be,

The wife of Heber the Kenite;

Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

²⁵He asked water, and she gave him milk;

She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

²⁶She put her hand to the tent-pin,

And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer;

And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head;

Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

²⁷At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;

At her feet he bowed, he fell;

Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

²⁸Through the window she looked forth, and cried,

The mother of Sisera cried through the lattice,

Why is his chariot so long in coming?

Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

²⁹Her wise ladies answered her,

Yea, she returned answer to herself,

³⁰Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil?

A damsel, two damsels to every man;

To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments,

A spoil of dyed garments embroidered,

Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?