16. Why do you sit among the sheepfoldsto hear playing of pipes for the flocks?In the clans of Reubenthere was much searching of heart.
17. Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan.As for Dan, why did he stay with the ships?Asher stayed by the seacoastand settled by its bays.
18. Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the point of death,Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.
19. “Kings came to wage war.The kings of Canaan waged warin Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;they took no money as profit.
20. From the heavens the stars fought,from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21. The torrent of Kishon swept them away,that ancient torrent, the torrent of Kishon.My soul, march on in strength!
22. Then horses’ hooves pounded,the galloping, galloping of his steeds.
23. Curse Meroz, said the angel of the Lord,curse its inhabitants,for they did not come to the aid of the Lord,to the aid of the Lord against the mighty warriors.
24. “Most blessed of women is Jael,the wife of Heber the Kenite,most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
25. He asked for water, she gave him milk.In a magnificent bowl she brought cream.
26. Her hand on a tent peg,her right hand on a workman’s hammer;she struck Sisera, she crushed his skull,she shattered and pierced his temple.
27. Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay;between her feet he sank, he fell;where he sank, there he fell, overpowered.
28. “The mother of Sisera looked through the window,and cried out through the lattice,‘Why is his chariot so late?Why is the sound of his war chariots so delayed?’
29. Her wise attendants answered her,indeed, she replied to herself,