¹⁴ With his own spear you pierced his head
    when his warriors stormed out to scatter us,^(A)
gloating as though about to devour
    the wretched^(B) who were in hiding.

⁸ He lies in wait^(A) near the villages;
    from ambush he murders the innocent.^(B)
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;

¹⁰ All the nations surrounded me,
    but in the name of the Lord I cut them down.^(A)
11 They surrounded me^(B) on every side,^(C)
    but in the name of the Lord I cut them down.
¹² They swarmed around me like bees,^(D)
    but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns;^(E)
    in the name of the Lord I cut them down.^(F)

⁸ Even Assyria^(A) has joined them
    to reinforce Lot’s descendants.^[a](B)

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,^(C)
    as you did to Sisera^(D) and Jabin^(E) at the river Kishon,^(F)
10 who perished at Endor^(G)
    and became like dung^(H) on the ground.
¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,^(I)
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,^(J)

⁵⁰ He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^(A)
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(B)