Judges 5:24-31

English Standard Version

²⁴ “Most blessed of women be ^(A)Jael,
    the wife of Heber the Kenite,
    of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
^25 (B)He asked for water and she gave him milk;
    she brought him curds in a noble's bowl.
^26 (C)She sent her hand to the tent peg
    and her right hand to the workmen's mallet;
she struck Sisera;
    she crushed his head;
    she shattered and pierced his temple.
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 (D)“Out of the window she peered,
    the mother of Sisera wailed through ^(E)the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
²⁹ Her wisest princesses answer,
    indeed, she answers herself,
³⁰ ‘Have they not found and ^(F)divided the spoil?—
    A womb or two for every man;
spoil of dyed materials for Sisera,
    spoil of dyed materials embroidered,
    two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’

^31 (G)“So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
    But your friends be ^(H)like the sun ^(I)as he rises in his might.”