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29 “Her wisest servant girl answers her.
    Yes, the servant gives her an answer:
30 ‘I’m sure they won the war,
    and they are now taking things from the people they defeated.
They are dividing those things among themselves.
    Each soldier is taking a girl or two.
Maybe Sisera found a piece of dyed cloth.
    That’s it! Sisera found a piece of fancy cloth,
    or maybe two, to wear around his neck in victory.’

31 “May all your enemies die like this, Lord!
    But may all those who love you be as strong as the rising sun!”

And there was peace in the land for 40 years.

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29 The wisest of her ladies answer her;
    indeed, she keeps saying to herself,
30 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:(A)
    a woman or two for each man,
colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,
    colorful garments embroidered,
highly embroidered garments(B) for my neck—
    all this as plunder?(C)

31 “So may all your enemies perish,(D) Lord!
    But may all who love you be like the sun(E)
    when it rises in its strength.”(F)

Then the land had peace(G) forty years.

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