The mother’s thoughts about Sisera’s plundering and raping of helpless, innocent women reveal what he has done innumerable times in the past. But this time he will not humiliate a single woman; instead, a single woman—a Kenite woman—will humiliate him and turn him into the plunder. The justice is, to a certain extent, retributive—but not completely. What Sisera receives is not really an adequate end to what he has perpetrated, any more than the death of Hitler was adequate justice to what he executed on the Jews.
