Judges 5:28

Out of the window looked and moaned the mother of Sissera, through the lattice, Why tarrieth his chariot so long in coming? why lag the wheels of his chariot?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

In Context

27Between her feet he bent, he fell, he lay; between her feet he bent, he fell: where he had bent, there he fell down, bereft of life.

29The wise among her ladies answered her, she also returned a reply to herself.

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Cross References

Judges 4:15And the Lord confounded Sissera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sissera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on foot.

Proverbs 7:6For through the window of my house, through my lattice did I [once] look out,

Song of Solomon 8:14Flee away, my friend, and be thou like the roebuck, or the fawn of the hinds, upon the mountain of spices.

Matthew Henry on Judges 5:25-31

24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 28 The… Read the whole commentary →

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