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26     She took a tent peg in her left hand.
    She took a worker's hammer in her right hand.
    She hit the peg through Sisera's head.
    She broke his skull. She broke it completely.
    She knocked the sharp peg through his head.
27     He fell to the floor at her feet.
    He lay there and he did not move.
    He died at the place where he fell.
    Jael had killed him!
28     Sisera's mother looked out from the window of her house.
    She waited for Sisera to return.
    She said, “His chariot has taken a long time to come!
    Why do I not yet hear the sound of his horse's feet?”

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26 Her hand reached for the tent peg,
    her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,
    she shattered and pierced his temple.(A)
27 At her feet he sank,
    he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
    where he sank, there he fell—dead(B).

28 “Through the window(C) peered Sisera’s mother;
    behind the lattice she cried out,(D)
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’

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