Deuteronomy 33

¹And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. ²And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law unto them. ³Yea, he loveth the peoples; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; Every oneshall receive of thy words. ⁴Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. ⁵And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together. ⁶Let Reuben live, and not die; Yet let his men be few. ⁷And this is the blessingof Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people: With his hands he contended for himself; And thou shalt be an help against his adversaries. ⁸And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy godly one, Whom thou didst prove at Massah, With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; ⁹Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed thy word, And keep thy covenant. ¹⁰They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thee, And whole burnt offering upon thine altar. ¹¹Bless, LORD, his substance, And accept the work of his hands: Smite through the loins of them that rise up against him, And of them that hate him, that they rise not again. ¹²Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; He covereth him all the day long, And he dwelleth between his shoulders. ¹³And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land; For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath, ¹⁴And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, And for the precious things of the growth of the moons, ¹⁵And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the everlasting hills, ¹⁶And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, And the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: Let the blessingcome upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. ¹⁷The firstling of his bullock, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, eventhe ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh. ¹⁸And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; And, Issachar, in thy tents. ¹⁹They shall call the peoples unto the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand. ²⁰And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: He dwelleth as a lioness, And teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head. ²¹And he provided the first part for himself, For there was the lawgiver’s portion reserved; And he came withthe heads of the people, He executed the justice of the LORD, And his judgments with Israel. ²²And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp, That leapeth forth from Bashan. ²³And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, And full with the blessing of the LORD: Possess thou the west and the south. ²⁴And of Asher he said, Blessed be Asher with children; Let him be acceptable unto his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil. ²⁵Thy bars shall be iron and brass; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be. ²⁶There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heaven for thy help, And in his excellency on the skies. ²⁷The eternal God is thydwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms: And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy. ²⁸And Israel dwelleth in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of corn and wine; Yea, his heavens drop down dew. ²⁹Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by the LORD, The shield of thy help, And that is the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.