Deuteronomy 33:6-29

New American Standard Bible

⁶“^(A)May Reuben live and not die,
Nor may his people be few.”

⁷^(B)And this was regarding Judah; so he said:

“Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah,
And bring him to his people.
With his hands he contended for ^[a]them,
And may You be a help against his adversaries.”

⁸Of Levi he said,

“Let Your ^(C)Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your ^(D)godly man,
^(E)Whom You tested at Massah,
With ^[b]whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;
⁹^(F)Who said of his father and his mother,
‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For ^(G)they kept Your word,
And complied with Your covenant.
¹⁰^(H)They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob,
And Your Law to Israel.
^(I)They shall put ^[c]incense before You,
And ^(J)whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
¹¹Lord, bless his strength,
And accept the work of his hands;
Smash the ^[d]hips of those who rise up against him,
And those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.”

¹²Of Benjamin he said,

“^(K)May the beloved of the Lord live in security beside Him
^(L)Who shields him all the day long,
^(M)And he lives between His shoulders.”

¹³Of Joseph he said,

“^(N)Blessed of the Lord be his land,
With the choice things of heaven, with the dew,
And from the deep waters lying beneath,
¹⁴And with the choice yield of the sun,
And the choice produce of the months;
¹⁵And with the ^[e]best things of ^(O)the ancient mountains,
With the choice things of the everlasting hills,
¹⁶And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness,
And the favor ^(P)of Him who dwelt in the bush.
Let it come to the head of Joseph,
And to the top of the head of the one who was prince among his brothers.
¹⁷As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,
And his horns are the horns of ^(Q)the wild ox;
With them he will ^(R)gore the peoples
All ^[f]at once, to the ends of the earth.
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”

¹⁸^(S)Of Zebulun he said,

“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
And, Issachar, in your tents.
¹⁹^(T)They will call peoples to the mountain;
There they will offer ^(U)righteous sacrifices;
For they will ^[g]draw out ^(V)the abundance of the seas,
And the hidden treasures of the sand.”

²⁰^(W)Of Gad he said,

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;
He lies down ^(X)as a ^[h]lion,
And tears the arm, also the crown of the head.
²¹^(Y)Then he ^[i]selected the choicest part for himself,
^(Z)For there the ruler’s portion was ^[j]reserved;
^(AA)And he came with the leaders of the people;
^(AB)He executed the justice of the Lord,
And His ordinances with Israel.”

²²^(AC)Of Dan he said,

“Dan is ^(AD)a lion’s cub;
He leaps out from Bashan.”

²³Of Naphtali he said,

“^(AE)Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
And full of the blessing of the Lord,
Take possession of the sea and the south.”

²⁴^(AF)Of Asher he said,

“More blessed than sons is Asher;
May he be favored by his brothers,
^(AG)And may he dip his foot in olive oil.
²⁵^(AH)Your ^[k]bars will be iron and bronze,
^(AI)And as your days, so will your strength be.

²⁶“^(AJ)There is no one like the God of ^[l]Jeshurun,
^(AK)Who rides the heavens ^[m]to your help,
And the clouds in His majesty.
²⁷^(AL)The eternal God is a ^[n]hiding place,
^(AM)And underneath are the everlasting arms;
^(AN)And He drove out the enemy from you,
^(AO)And said, ‘Destroy!’
²⁸^(AP)So Israel lives in security,
^(AQ)The fountain of Jacob secluded,
^(AR)In a land of grain and new wine;
^(AS)His heavens also drip down dew.
²⁹^(AT)Blessed are you, Israel;
^(AU)Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord,
^(AV)The shield of your help,
^(AW)And He who is the sword of your majesty!
^(AX)So your enemies will cringe before you,
^(AY)And you will trample on their high places.”