In Context

26 She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sis'era a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

27 He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.

28 |Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sis'era gazed through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?'

29 Her wisest ladies make answer, nay, she gives answer to herself,

30 Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? —A maiden or two for every man; spoil of dyed stuffs for Sis'era, spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?'

31 |So perish all thine enemies, O LORD! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.| And the land had rest for forty years.

Judges 5:29 in Other Translations