Judges. Iahel et Sisara.
Douay-Rheims translation
4:14 And Debbora said to Barac: Arise, for this is the day wherein the Lord
hath delivered Sisara into thy hands: behold he is thy leader. And Barac went
down from mount Thabor, and ten thousand fighting men with him.
4:15 And the Lord struck a terror into Sisara, and all his chariots, and all
his multitude, with the edge of the sword, at the sight of Barac, insomuch
that Sisara leaping down from off his chariot, fled away on foot.
4:16 And Barac pursued after the fleeing chariots and the army unto Haroseth
of the Gentiles, and all the multitude of the enemies was utterly destroyed.
4:17 But Sisara fleeing came to the tent of Jahel the wife of Haber the Cinite,
for there was peace between Jabin the king of Asor, and the house of Haber
the Cinite.
4:18 And Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, and said to him: Come in to me,
my lord, come in, fear not. He went in to her tent, and being covered by her
with a cloak,
4:19 Said to her: Give me, I beseech thee, a little water, for I am very thirsty.
She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.
4:20 And Sisara said to her: Stand before the door of the tent, and when any
shall come and inquire of thee, saying: Is there any man here? thou shalt
say: There is none.
4:21 So Jahel Haber's wife took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer:
and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of
his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast
into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away
and died.
4:22 And behold Barac came pursuing after Sisara: and Jahel went out to meet
him, and said to him: Come, and I will shew thee, the man whom thou seekest.
And when he came into her tent, be saw Sisara lying dead, and the nail fastened
in his temples.