Judges 5:20–30

²⁰The stars fought from the heavens;

the stars fought with Sisera from their paths.

²¹The river Kishon swept them away,^m

the ancient river, the river Kishon.

March on, my soul, in strength!

²²The horses’ hooves then hammered—

the galloping, galloping of his^A stallions.

²³“Curse Meroz,” says the angel of the Lord,

“Bitterly curse her inhabitants,

for they did not come to help the Lord,

to help the Lord with the warriors.”

²⁴Jael is most blessed of women, is Jael,

the wife of Heber the Kenite;

she is most blessed among tent-dwelling women.

²⁵He asked for water; she gave him milk.

She brought him cream^a in a majestic bowl.

²⁶She reached for a tent peg,

her right hand, for a workman’s hammer.

Then she hammered Sisera—

she crushed his head;

she shattered and pierced his temple.

²⁷He collapsed, he fell, he lay down between her feet;

he collapsed, he fell between her feet;

where he collapsed, there he fell—dead.

²⁸Sisera’s mother looked through the window;

she peered through the lattice, crying out:

“Why is his chariot so long in coming?

Why don’t I hear the hoofbeats of his horses?”^B

²⁹Her wisest princesses answer her;

she even answers herself:

³⁰“Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—

a girl or two^C for each warrior,

the spoil of colored garments for Sisera,

the spoil of an embroidered garment or two for my neck?”^D