⁸ “Judah,^(A) you are he whom your brothers shall praise;
^(B)Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
^(C)Your father’s children shall bow down before you.
⁹ Judah is ^(D)a lion’s whelp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
^(E)He ^[a]bows down, he lies down as a lion;
And as a lion, who shall rouse him?
^10 (F)The ^[b]scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor ^(G)a lawgiver from between his feet,
^(H)Until Shiloh comes;
^(I)And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.

¹⁷ “I^(A) see Him, but not now;
I behold Him, but not near;
^(B)A Star shall come out of Jacob;
^(C)A Scepter shall rise out of Israel,
And ^[a]batter the brow of Moab,
And destroy all the sons of ^[b]tumult.

⁶ ‘But^(A) you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;
For out of you shall come a Ruler
^(B)Who will shepherd My people Israel.’ ”