16. Why do you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the calling sounds of the herds? For the clans of Reuben, there were great searchings of the heart.
17. Gilead has remained beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan dwell as a foreigner with ships? Asher sat at the coast of the waters, and by his coves he has been settling down.
18. Zebulun is a people who scorned death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field.
19. “The kings came, they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought; at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they got no plunder in silver.
20. The stars fought from heaven; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21. The wadi torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, with strength!
22. “Then the hooves of the horse beat loudly, because of galloping, galloping of his stallions.
23. ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of Yahweh; ‘curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.’
24. “Most blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she of women among tent dwellers.
25. He asked for water, and she gave milk; in a drinking bowl for nobles, she brought curds.
26. She reached out her hand to the peg, and her right hand for the workman’s hammer; and she struck Sisera, crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced his temple.