KJV 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?
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Judges 5:28
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?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
WEB 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?’
ASV American Standard Version
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?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Through the window she hath looked out—Yea, she crieth out—the mother of Sisera, Through the lattice: Wherefore is his chariot delaying to come? Wherefore tarried have the steps of his chariot?
Surrounding context — Judges 5
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 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?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בְּעַד֩H1157 · be.adabout/through/forהַחַלּ֨וֹןH2474 · chal.lonwindowנִשְׁקְפָ֧הH8259 · sha.qaphto lookוַתְּיַבֵּ֛בH2980 · ya.vavto cryאֵ֥םH517 · emmotherסִֽיסְרָ֖אH5516 · sis.raSiseraבְּעַ֣דH1157 · be.adabout/through/forהָֽאֶשְׁנָ֑בH822 · esh.navlatticeמַדּ֗וּעַH4069 · mad.du.awhy?בֹּשֵׁ֤שׁH954 · bushbe ashamedרִכְבּוֹ֙H7393 · re.khevchariotלָב֔וֹאH935 · boto come (in): comeמַדּ֣וּעַH4069 · mad.du.awhy?אֶֽחֱר֔וּH309 · a.charto delayפַּעֲמֵ֖יH6471 · pa.ambeatמַרְכְּבוֹתָֽיו׃H4818 · mer.ka.vahchariot
Cross-references
Proverbs 7:6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,Song of Solomon 2:9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.Song of Solomon 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.James 5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.Judges 4:15And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet.2 Kings 1:2And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
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