5:28-30
This section is a kind of mocking of Sisera, through an imagined reaction of his mother. She is portrayed as wondering why he has not returned yet. Her ladies try to reassure her that it is because he is collecting more and more plunder, including women for each of his men. We should not imagine that Sisera and his nation were nice peace loving people! All these hopes were in vain, for Sisera was dead.
5:31
The song closes with a call that all God’s enemies perish, but that all who love the Lord may shine like the sun. The chapter closes with the statement that the land had peace for forty years. The battle has been fought, and we have many gory details. The battle was real, but things are also put in a theological context.
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