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V] :The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
 * The river of Kishon swept them away.
 * That ancient river, the river Kishon.
 * O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
 * Then were the horsehoofs broken
 * By the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
 * Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord,
 * Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof;
 * Because they came not to the help of the Lord,
 * To the help of the Lord against the mighty.
 * Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be.
 * Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
 * He asked water, and she gave him milk;
 * She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The mother of Sisera looked out at a window.
 * And cried through the lattice,