NITHYAM SONGSGenesis 49
World English Bible (WEB) • 33 verses
1Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
RelatedNumbers 24:14 · Jeremiah 23:20 · Daniel 10:14 · Deuteronomy 4:30 · Hebrews 1:2 · Psalms 105:15
2Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
RelatedPsalms 34:11 · Proverbs 8:32 · Proverbs 23:22 · Proverbs 23:26 · Proverbs 6:20 · Proverbs 7:1
3“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
RelatedPsalms 78:51 · Deuteronomy 21:17 · Psalms 105:36 · Genesis 29:32 · Genesis 48:18 · 1 Chronicles 5:1
4Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
RelatedGenesis 35:22 · Deuteronomy 27:20 · 1 Chronicles 5:1 · Deuteronomy 33:6 · 1 Corinthians 5:1 · James 1:6-8
5“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
6My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Related1 Chronicles 6:65 · Joshua 19:1-9 · 1 Chronicles 4:24-31 · Joshua 21:1-45 · Proverbs 26:24-25 · 2 Samuel 13:15
8“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
Related1 Chronicles 5:2 · Genesis 27:29 · Hebrews 7:14 · Deuteronomy 33:7 · Genesis 29:35 · Psalms 18:40-43
9Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.
11Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
12His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.
RelatedProverbs 23:29
13“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
14“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.
RelatedGenesis 30:18 · 1 Chronicles 12:32 · Deuteronomy 33:18 · Joshua 19:17-23 · Judges 5:15-16 · Judges 10:1
15He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
16“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
RelatedDeuteronomy 33:22 · Genesis 30:6 · Judges 15:20 · Judges 13:24-25 · Judges 18:1-2 · Judges 18:26-27
17Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.
18I have waited for your salvation, LORD.
19“A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.
Related1 Chronicles 5:11-22 · Deuteronomy 33:20-21 · Genesis 30:11 · 1 Chronicles 3:18-22 · 1 Chronicles 5:26 · Genesis 46:16
20“Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.
21“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
RelatedDeuteronomy 33:23 · Genesis 30:8 · Joshua 19:32-39 · Psalms 18:33-34 · Matthew 4:15-16 · Judges 5:18
22“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
RelatedGenesis 41:52 · Psalms 1:1-3 · Psalms 128:3 · Joshua 17:14-17 · Joshua 16:1-10 · Genesis 46:27
23The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:
24But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
25even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
RelatedGenesis 35:11 · Genesis 28:13 · Philippians 4:19 · Genesis 43:23 · Deuteronomy 8:17 · Deuteronomy 33:13-17
26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
RelatedDeuteronomy 33:15-16 · Habakkuk 3:6 · Genesis 27:39-40 · Genesis 28:3-4 · Psalms 132:18 · Jonah 2:6
27“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”
28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
29He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
RelatedGenesis 50:13 · Genesis 47:30 · Genesis 15:15 · Genesis 25:8-17 · 2 Samuel 19:37 · Genesis 35:29
30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
31There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
32the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”
RelatedGenesis 23:17-20
33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.
RelatedGenesis 49:29 · Genesis 25:8 · Genesis 35:29 · Genesis 25:17 · Hebrews 11:13-16 · Hebrews 12:23
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