Leeser(i)
19 There came kings, and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan, in Ta’anach by the waters of Megiddo: gain of money they took not away.
20 From heaven they fought—the stars in their courses fought against Sissera.
21 The stream of Kishon swept them away, that ancient stream, the stream of Kishon: step along, O my soul, in victorious strength.
22 Then were crushed the hoofs of the horses, through the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, saith the messenger of the Lord, yea, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the mighty.
24 Blessed above other women shall be Ja’el the wife of Cheber the Kenite, above other women dwelling in the tent may she be blessed.
25 Water he asked, milk she gave him: in a lordly dish she brought him cream.
26 Her hand she put forth to the nail, and her right hand to the laborious workmen’s hammer; and she hammered Sissera, she struck his head, and crushed and smote through his temple.
27 Between her feet he bent, he fell, he lay; between her feet he bent, he fell: where he had bent, there he fell down, bereft of life.
28 Out of the window looked and moaned the mother of Sissera, through the lattice, Why tarrieth his chariot so long in coming? why lag the wheels of his chariot?
29 The wise among her ladies answered her, she also returned a reply to herself.
30 Will they not find,—divide booty? one maiden, two maidens for every man, a booty of colored garments for Sissera, a booty of colored embroidered garments, colored, double-worked garments round the necks of the captives!
31 Thus may perish all thy enemies, O Lord; but may those that love him be as the rising of the sun in his might. And the land had rest forty years.