Catholic Public Domain Version

Judges 5:26-29 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

26. She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's mallet. And she struck Sisera, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing his temples.

27. Between her feet, he was ruined. He fainted away and passed on. He curled up before her feet, and he lay there lifeless and miserable.

28. His mother gazed through a window and wailed. And she spoke from an upper room: 'Why does his chariot delay in returning? Why are the feet of his team of horses so slow?'

29. One who was wiser than the rest of his wives responded to her mother-in-law with this: