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?

The mother {H517} of Sisera {H5516} looked {H8259} out at a window {H2474}, and cried {H2980} through the lattice {H822}, Why is his chariot {H7393} so long {H954} in coming {H935}? why tarry {H309} the wheels {H6471} of his chariots {H4818}?

"Sisra's mother looks out the window; peering out through the lattice she wonders, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why are his horses so slow to return?'

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?’

Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Siseracriedthrough the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

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Cross-References

  • Song Of Solomon 8:14 (2 votes)

    Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

  • Proverbs 7:6 (2 votes)

    ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

  • 2 Kings 1:2 (2 votes)

    And 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, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

  • Judges 4:15 (2 votes)

    And 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.

  • James 5:7 (2 votes)

    Be 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.

  • Song Of Solomon 2:9 (2 votes)

    My 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.