Judges 5:24-30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²⁴ Most blessed of women be Jael,
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,
    of tent-dwelling women most blessed.^(A)
25 Water he asked, milk she gave;
    she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.^(B)
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.^(C)
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?’^(D)
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?’^(E)