5:27. Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched. 5:28. His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow? 5:29. One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this answer to her mother in law: 5:30. Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the women is chosen out for him: garments of divers colours are given to Sisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped together to adorn necks. 5:31. So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising. 5:32. And the land rested for forty years. Judges Chapter 6 The people for their sins, are oppressed by the Madianites. Gedeon is called to deliver them. 6:1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years, 6:2. And they were grievously oppressed by them. And they made themselves dens and caves in the mountains, and strong holds to resist. 6:3. And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up: 6:4. And pitching their tents among them, wasted all things as they were in the blade, even to the entrance of Gaza: and they left nothing at all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen, nor asses. 6:5. For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like locusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of camels, wasting whatsoever they touched. 6:6. And Israel was humbled exceedingly in the sight of Madian. 6:7. And he cried to the Lord, desiring help against the Madianites. 6:8. And he sent unto them a prophet, and he spoke: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: I made you to come up out of Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage, 6:9. And delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians, and of all the enemies that afflicted you: and I cast them out at your coming in, and gave you their land. 6:10. And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear not the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell. And you would not hear my voice. 6:11. And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian, 6:12. The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant of men. 6:13. And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Madian.