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They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera (5:20) The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength (5:21) Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones (5:22) Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty (5:23) Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent (5:24) He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish (5:25) She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples (5:26) At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead (5:27) The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? (5:28) Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, (5:29) Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil? (5:30) So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years
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