Judges 5:21

swept them away The battle must have taken place in the winter or spring, for in summer the Kishon runs low. The fate of Sisera's host finds a parallel in the battle of Mt Tabor between the army of Napoleon and the Turks, Apr. 16, 1799, when many of the latter were drowned when attempting to escape across a part of the plain inundated by the Kishon.

That ancient river lit. torrent of antiquity, so LXX. B, Targ. (-where the wonders and mighty deeds of oldwere wrought for Israel"). Another translation, based on Arabic usage, is torrent of onsets; or, developing the meaning of the root -be before, in front," we might render onrushing torrent, alluding to the swollen waters. The exact sense must remain obscure.

O my soul, march on with strength A questionable rendering, for the verb is not an imperative. The text as it stands is probably an attempt to make some sense of an ancient corruption. The line may have formed part of the previous one: -the torrent of Kishon trode them down mightily" but to reconstruct the original form of the sentence is hopeless.