English Revised Version

Judges 5:20-27 English Revised Version (ERV)

20. They fought from heaven, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

21. The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

22. Then did the horsehoofs stamp by reason of the pransings, the pransings of their strong ones.

23. 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.

24. Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

25. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought him butter in a lordly dish.

26. 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 through his head, yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

27. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.