21. The Kishon torrent swept them away— that ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon! O my soul, march on with strength!
22. Then the horses’ hooves beat from the dashing, the dashing of his mighty steeds.
23. ‘Curse Meroz!’ said the angel of Adonai, ‘Utterly curse its inhabitants, for they came not to the aid of Adonai, to the aid of Adonai among the mighty.’
24. Blessed above women is Yael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in the tent is she blessed.
25. Water he asked, milk she gave him. In a lordly bowl she brought him butter.
26. Her hand reached for the tent pin, her right hand to the workmen’s hammer, and with the hammer she struck Sisera, she smashed his head— yes, she crushed and pierced his temple.
27. At her feet he collapsed, he fell, he lay. Between her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell dead.
28. Through the window, Sisera’s mother looked out, through the lattice. and lamented shrilly: ‘Why does his chariot delay in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots tarry?’
29. The wisest of her princesses answer her, yes, she repeats the words to herself: