30 “Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—
a girl or two[a] for each warrior,
the spoil of colored garments for Sisera,
the spoil of an embroidered garment or two for my neck?” [b]

31 Lord, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did.[c]
But may those who love him
be like the rising of the sun in its strength.

And the land had peace for forty years.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:30 Lit a womb or two wombs
  2. 5:30 Hb obscure
  3. 5:31 Lit perish in this way

30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

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