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28 “Sisera’s mother looked out through the window.
    She looked through the curtains and cried out,
‘Why is Sisera’s chariot so late in coming?
    Why are sounds of his chariots’ horses delayed?’
29 The wisest of her servant ladies answer her,
    and Sisera’s mother says to herself,
30 ‘Surely they are robbing the people they defeated!
    Surely they are dividing those things among themselves!
Each soldier is given a girl or two.
    Maybe Sisera is taking pieces of dyed cloth.
Maybe they are even taking
    pieces of dyed, embroidered cloth for the necks of the victors!’

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28 “Through the window(A) peered Sisera’s mother;
    behind the lattice she cried out,(B)
‘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,
30 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:(C)
    a woman or two for each man,
colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,
    colorful garments embroidered,
highly embroidered garments(D) for my neck—
    all this as plunder?(E)

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