Judges 5:19-27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

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.