Judges 5:20–30

²⁰From heaven fought the stars,

from their courses they fought against Sisera.

²¹The torrent Kishon swept them away,

the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon.

March on, my soul, with might!

²²“Then loud beat the horses’ hoofs

with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.

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

curse bitterly its inhabitants,

because they came not to the help of the Lord,

to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

²⁴“Most blessed of women be Jael,

the wife of Heber the Kenite,

of tent-dwelling women most blessed.

²⁵He asked water and she gave him milk,

she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.

²⁶She put her hand to the tent peg

and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet;

she struck Sisera a blow,

she crushed his head,

she shattered and pierced his temple.

²⁷He sank, he fell,

he lay still at her feet;

at her feet he sank, he fell;

where he sank, there he fell dead.

²⁸“Out of the window she peered,

the mother of Sisera gazed through the lattice:

‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?

Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’

²⁹Her wisest ladies make answer,

nay, she gives answer to herself,

³⁰‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?—

A maiden or two for every man;

spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera,

spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered,

two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’