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29 The wisest of her ladies answer her;
    she also answers the question herself:
30 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the plunder?
    A bedmate or two bedmates for every man;[a]
colorful garments for Sisera,
    plunder of colorful garments,[b]
beautifully finished colorful garments,
    on the neck of the plunderer?’
31 So may all your enemies perish, O Yahweh,
but those who love him are like the rising sun at its brightest.”

And the land had rest for forty years.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:30 Literally “a womb, two wombs for head of every man”
  2. Judges 5:30 Hebrew “garment”

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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