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JUDGES
- The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
- The river of Kishon swept them away.
- That ancient river, the river Kishon.
- O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
- Then were the horsehoofs broken
- By the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- 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.
- Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be.
- Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
- He asked water, and she gave him milk;
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- 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.
- 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.
- The mother of Sisera looked out at a window.
- And cried through the lattice,
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