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27 He sank to his knees,
    fell down and lay still at her feet.
At her feet he sank to his knees and fell;
    he fell to the ground, dead.

28 Sisera's mother looked out of the window;
    she gazed[a] from behind the lattice.
“Why is his chariot so late in coming?” she asked.
    “Why are his horses so slow to return?”
29 Her wisest friends answered her,
    and she told herself over and over,

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:28 Some ancient translations gazed; Hebrew cried out.

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(A).

28 “Through the window(B) peered Sisera’s mother;
    behind the lattice she cried out,(C)
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’
29 The wisest of her ladies answer her;
    indeed, she keeps saying to herself,

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