JUDGES
[VI
- Why is his chariot so long in coming?
- Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
- Her wise ladies answered her,
- Yea, she returned answer to herself,
- 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?
- 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.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. For
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