19. The melachim came and fought, then fought the melachim of Kena'an at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no plunder of kesef.
20. They fought from Shomayim; the kokhavim in their courses fought Sisra.
21. The Kishon River swept them away, that nachal kedumim, the Kishon River. O my nefesh, march on with oz.
22. Then were the ikvei sus (horse hooves) galloping, the prancings of hooves, the prancings of their mighty steeds.
23. Curse Meroz, said the Malach Hashem, curse bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the ezrat Hashem, to the help of Hashem, against the gibborim.
24. Blessed above nashim shall Yael eshet Chever the Keni be, blessed shall she be above nashim in the ohel.
25. He asked mayim, and she gave him cholov; she brought forth curds in a noble's dish.
26. She put her yad to the yetad, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and with the hammer she struck Sisra, she crushed his rosh, when she had shattered and pierced his temple.
27. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, sham (there) he fell down dead.
28. The Em Sisra looked out through the chalon (window), and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his marekevot (chariots)?
29. Her chachemot sarot (wisest ladies) answered her, indeed, she repeats to herself her words,
30. Are they not finding and dividing the prey; to every gever a girl or two; for Sisra colorful garments as plunder, a plunder of dyed work embroidered, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, fit for the necks of them that take the spoil?
31. So let all thine enemies perish, Hashem; but let them that love Him be as the shemesh in its gevurah. And HaAretz had rest arba'im shanah.