⁹ You are a lion’s cub, Judah;
    you return from the prey, my son.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down,
    like a lioness – who dares to rouse him?
¹⁰ The sceptre will not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,^[a]
until he to whom it belongs^[b] shall come
    and the obedience of the nations shall be his.