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Judges 5:28

World English Bible

“Through the window she looked out, and cried:
Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice.
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’

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Judges 5:28 in other translations

Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Judges 5:28 · American Standard Version

Judges 5:28 in context

  1. 26She put her hand to the tent peg,
    and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer.
    With the hammer she struck Sisera.
    She struck through his head.
    Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
  2. 27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.
    At her feet he bowed, he fell.
    Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
  3. 28“Through the window she looked out, and cried:
    Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice.
    ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’
  4. 29Her wise ladies answered her,
    Yes, she returned answer to herself,
  5. 30‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder?
    A lady, two ladies to every man;
    to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments,
    a plunder of dyed garments embroidered,
    of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’