Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageShe reached out her hand to the tent peg, her right hand to the laborer's hammer — she struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple!
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GShe reached out her hand to the tent-peg, her right hand to the workman's hammer — she struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and drove through his temple!
KJV
King James VersionShe put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleShe reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
Footnotes
The fourfold cascade of verbs — *halmah, machaqah, machatsah, chalphah* ('struck, crushed, shattered, pierced') — is the poem's most viscerally violent sequence, performing the irreversibility of the act in its relentless accumulation. *Halmuot amelim* ('hammer of workmen') again grounds Ya'el's deed in her ordinary world: she is no warrior, just a woman who knew her tent's tools. The *raqah* (temple/skull) is the vulnerable point — as later with Goliath, the giant falls through a seemingly small, precise blow. FOG and FOG Message render this nearly identically, with FOG using 'drove through' and FOG Message using 'pierced' for *chalphah*.