Judges 5:20–30

²⁰They fought from heaven;

The stars in their ^†courses fought against Sisera.

²¹The ⁿriver of Kishon swept them away,

That ancient river, the river Kishon.

O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

²²Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the ^||pransings,

The pransings of their ^omighty ones.

²³Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord,

Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof;

^pBecause they came not ^qto the help of the Lord,

To the help of the Lord against the mighty.

²⁴Blessed above women shall ^rJael the wife of Heber the Kenite be,

Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

^25sHe asked water, and she gave him milk;

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

^26tShe put her hand to the nail,

And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer;

And ^†with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head,

When she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

^27†At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down:

^†At her feet he bowed, he fell:

Where he bowed, there he fell down ^†dead.

²⁸The mother of Sisera ^ulooked out at a window,

And cried ^wthrough the lattice,

Why is his chariot so ^xlong in coming?

Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

²⁹Her wise ladies answered her,

Yea, she returned ^†answer to herself,

³⁰Have they not sped? have they not ^ydivided the prey;

^†To every man a damsel or two;

To Sisera a prey of divers colours,

A prey of divers colours of needlework,

Of divers colours of needlework on both sides,

Meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?