Mount Tabor Raised and the Stars That Fought Sisera

Another interpretation (of Isaiah 2:2): "The mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established," and so forth, "and Mount Tabor shall become very high." A parable: To what is the matter comparable? To the children of the palace of a king. They went down from the city and killed lions and leopards and bears in the forest, and they brought them and hung them up opposite the gate of the city, and all the people of the city were amazed: Who trained them against those lions? So did the Holy One, blessed be He, do. Sisera came against Israel at Mount Tabor; from the heavens the stars fought, and so forth (Judges 5:20). They all began to be amazed, for there had never been anything like this deed, that stars should come down from the heavens to make war with flesh and blood. The Holy One, blessed be He, said: In this world the stars fought on your behalf, but in the world to come, "Then the LORD shall go forth and fight against those nations," and so forth, "And His feet shall stand," and so forth (Zechariah 14:3-4), and all of that matter; and all of them shall point Him out in the midst, as it is said: "And it shall be said in that day: Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us; this is the LORD; we have waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation" (Isaiah 25:9).