Judges 5:20–30

²⁰The stars fought from heaven;

from their courses they fought against Sisera.

²¹The wadi^o torrent of Kishon swept them away,

the raging wadi torrent,

the wadi torrent of Kishon.

March on, my soul, with strength!

²²“Then the hooves of the horse beat loudly,

because of galloping, galloping of his stallions.

²³‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of Yahweh;

‘curse bitterly its inhabitants,

because they did not come to the help of Yahweh,

to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.’

²⁴“Most blessed of women is Jael,

the wife of Heber the Kenite;

most blessed is she of women among tent dwellers.

²⁵He asked for water, and she gave milk;

in a drinking bowl for nobles, she brought curds.

²⁶She reached out her hand to the peg,

and her right hand for the workman’s hammer;

and she struck Sisera, crushed his head,

and she shattered and pierced his temple.

²⁷Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay.

Between her feet he sank down, he fell;

Where he sank down, there he fell—dead.^p

²⁸“Through the window she looked down;

the mother of Sisera cried out through the lattice,

‘Why is his chariot delayed in coming?

Why do the hoof beats^q of his chariot tarry?’

²⁹The wisest of her ladies answer her;

she also answers the question herself:

³⁰‘Are they not finding and dividing the plunder?

A bedmate or two bedmates for every man;^r

colorful garments for Sisera,

plunder of colorful garments,^s

beautifully finished colorful garments,

on the neck of the plunderer?’