Judges 5:24-31

New American Standard Bible

²⁴ “^(A)Most blessed of women is Jael,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
Most blessed is she of women in the tent.
²⁵ He asked for water, she gave him milk;
In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
²⁶ She reached out her hand for the tent peg,
And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer.
Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head;
And she shattered and pierced his temple.
²⁷ Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;
Between her feet he bowed, he fell;
Where he bowed, there he fell ^[a]dead.

²⁸ “Out of the window she looked and wailed,
The mother of Sisera through the ^[b]lattice,
‘Why does his chariot delay in coming?
Why do the ^[c]hoofbeats of his chariots delay?’
²⁹ Her wise princesses would answer her,
Indeed she repeats her words to herself,
³⁰ ‘^(B)Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoils?
A concubine, two concubines for every warrior;
To Sisera a spoil of dyed cloth,
A spoil of dyed cloth embroidered,
Dyed cloth of double embroidery on the ^[d]neck of the plunderer?’
^31 (C)May all Your enemies perish in this way, Lord;
^(D)But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”