21 The Kishon River swept them away;the advancing river, the Kishon River.March on, my life, with might!
22 Then the horses’ hooves poundedwith the galloping, galloping of their stallions.
23 "Curse Meroz," says the Lord’s messenger,"curse its inhabitants bitterly,because they didn’t come to the Lord’s aid,to the Lord’s aid against the warriors."
24 May Jael be blessed above all women;may the wife of Heber the Kenitebe blessed above all tent-dwelling women.
25 He asked for water, and she provided milk;she presented him cream in a majestic bowl.
26 She reached out her hand for the stake,her strong hand for the worker’s hammer.She struck Sisera;she crushed his head;she shattered and pierced his skull.
27 At her feet he sank, fell, and lay flat;at her feet he sank, he fell;where he sank, there he fell—dead.