So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord ... The ode concludes with a wish in unison with the pious and patriotic character of the prophetess. The author of the song seems at the close to cast a retrospective glance on the issues of that eventful battle; and after expressing a hope that the enemies of the Lord might all share the fate of Sisera and his army, then uttered a fervent prayer that Israel, as the true people of God, might henceforth run a course of national prosperity as brilliant and beneficial as the summer's sun.