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Woe, the slayed stand, they stand before Jehova's throne. 20
And towards Israel the hospitable inhabitants of Schechem do point.
God, thou who judges impartially, I clean my hands from misdeed:
Jacob's name shall not stand along with the names of Levi and Simeon !
Rumbling, their hands slayed the innocent, and he who loved them
Was murdered by their rage, therfore the curse of damnation shall fall upon
them ! 25
Cursed shall be their inheritor, the abode of the arrogant shall
be destroyed!
O Judah ! You are the chosen one, the shining praised of your people.
You will put your foot on the necks of hostile peoples
And Jacob's descent will, O son, bow the knee before you!
Young lion, how did the lion's enemies fall? 30
Great is your triumph, you are lurking for them in ambush.
None is here to resist your Sway.
Never the sceptre shall turn from Judah, the crown
Shall always adorn his head, he may rule for ever
Till the hero come "whom crowds of peoples follow ! 35
To the tendril's winding he binds the donkey's foal
And the jenny-ass's son to the creeping shoots of the vine.
His sparkling gift shall soak Judah's upper garment
And the grape's juice the fabric of home-bred wool.
Abundance of must shall inflame the red of his beaming eyes, 40
Whiter than milk the teeth of my begotten are blinking ! -
At the shore of the sea be Zebulon's dwelling, his wide
House shall adjoin Sidon where in the loud roaring surf
On the white undulation of waves the ships come near
As a fleet, and the keels of Tyre cut the sea. 45
Issachar shall resemble the strong donkey, the useful pack ass,
Quietly he rests in the midst of the boarders of the land,
But there he enjoys the quietness, he clings to the fertile soil,.
Lovingly, and bowed his neck having become a tributary servant.
To his people Dan will set right, for the maiden's son shall be equal to the
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Of Israel's legal wives, cunning like the serpent by the way side
And like the adder hiding lurkingly on the slippery footpath !
The enemy's horse shall prance being bitten in the heel,
