¹⁹ The kings came; they fought;
    then fought the kings of Canaan,
at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;
    they got no spoils of silver.^(A)
20 The stars fought from heaven;
    from their courses they fought against Sisera.^(B)
21 The torrent Kishon swept them away,
    the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon.
    March on, my soul, with might!^(C)

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 did not come 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.^(D)
25 Water he asked, milk she gave;
    she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.^(E)
26 She put her hand to the tent peg
    and her right hand to the workers’ mallet;
she struck Sisera a blow;
    she crushed his head;
    she shattered and pierced his temple.^(F)
27 Between her feet he sank, he fell,
    he lay still;
between 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^[a] through the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’^(G)
29 Her wisest ladies make answer;
    indeed, she answers the question herself:
³⁰ ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?
    A woman 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?’^(H)

³¹ So perish all your enemies, O Lord!
    But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.”