And she gave him milk,
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish."
The tent pin has pierced the temples of the oppressor of Israel:
"At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down,
At her feet he bowed, he fell,
When he bowed, he fell down--dead."
Very dramatic do the lines become when, imagining the mother of Sisera waiting for her son to return victorious from the battle, and looking out through the lattice of her dwelling wondering at his long delay, she asks:
"Why is his chariot so long in coming,
Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?"
But Sisera never returns to his maternal roof. For forty years did the people enjoy the freedom of Deborah's deliverance, the woman whose influence went out from "the sanctuary of the palm."