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27     He fell to the floor at her feet.
    He lay there and he did not move.
    He died at the place where he fell.
    Jael had killed him!
28     Sisera's mother looked out from the window of her house.
    She waited for Sisera to return.
    She said, “His chariot has taken a long time to come!
    Why do I not yet hear the sound of his horse's feet?”
29     Her wise ladies replied,
    and she herself thought the same thing:

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27 At her feet he sank,
    he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
    where he sank, there he fell—dead(A).

28 “Through the window(B) peered Sisera’s mother;
    behind the lattice she cried out,(C)
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
    Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’
29 The wisest of her ladies answer her;
    indeed, she keeps saying to herself,

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