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28 “Back at home,[a] out the window Sisera’s mother peered,
    lamenting through the lattice.
‘Why is his chariot delayed in returning?
    ‘Why do the hoof beats of his chariots wait?’
29 Her wise attendants[b] find an answer for her;
    in fact, she tells the same words to herself:
30 ‘They’re busy finding and dividing the war booty, aren’t they?
    A girl or two for each valiant warrior,
and some dyed materials for Sisera—
    perhaps dyed, embroidered war booty—
or some detailed embroidery for my neck
    as the booty of war!

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:28 The Heb. lacks Back at home
  2. Judges 5:29 Or officials