Judges 5:20–30

²⁰From the heavens they fought: The stars from their highways fought with Sisera. ²¹The brook Kishon swept them away, The brook most ancient—the brook Kishon. Thou dost tread down strength, O my soul! ²²Then broken were the horse-heels, By pransings—pransings of its mighty ones. ²³Curse Meroz—said a messenger of Jehovah, Cursing, curse ye its inhabitants, For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty!

²⁴Blessed above women is Jael, Wife of Heber the Kenite, Above women in the tent she is blessed. ²⁵Water he asked—milk she gave; In a lordly dish she brought near butter. ²⁶Her hand to the pin she sendeth forth, And her right hand to the labourers’ hammer, And she hammered Sisera—she smote his head, Yea, she smote, and it passed through his temple. ²⁷Between her feet he bowed—He fell, he lay down; Between her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell—destroyed. ²⁸Through the window she hath looked out—Yea, she crieth out—the mother of Sisera, Through the lattice: Wherefore is his chariot delaying to come? Wherefore tarried have the steps of his chariot? ²⁹The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, Yea, she returneth her sayings to herself: ³⁰Do they not find?—they apportion spoil, A female—two females—for every head, Spoil of finger-work for Sisera, Spoil of embroidered finger-work, Finger-work—a pair of embroidered things, For the necks of the spoil!