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19 The kings came and fought; then fought the kings of Canaan; they fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no goods nor money. 20 The stars fought from their courses; they fought from heaven against Sisera by the river Kishon. 21 The river Kishon and the river Karmin swept them away. O my soul, you have defeated an army! 22 Then the hoofs of his horses fell down, were broken because of the prancing of his mighty ones. 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse it, and curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not with men to the help of the LORD. 24 Blessed above women shall Anael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a giant bowl. 26 She put her hand to the peg and her right hand to the carpenter's hammer, and with the hammer she struck Sisera and crushed his head, when she had struck and pierced his temples. 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at the place where he bowed, there he fell down dead, the plunderer. 28 The mother of Sisera looked out of the window and cried through the lattice, Why are the chariots of my son so long in coming? Why tarries the clatter of his chariots? 29 Her wise ladies answered her, saying, 30 Perhaps he went and found great spoil, dividing the prey, giving to every man a mule and great booty, and to Sisera a prey of diverse colors of needlework and divers colors of embroidered work, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil. 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD; but let them that love thee be like the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest for forty years. Judges 5:19-31, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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