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For Yahweh's portion is His people;Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

He found him in a desert land,And in the howling waste of a wilderness;He encircled him; He cared for him;He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,That hovers over its young,He spread His wings and caught them;He carried them on His pinions.

"But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—You grew fat, thick, and sleek—Then he abandoned God who made him,And treated the Rock of his salvation with wicked foolishness.

"And Yahweh saw this and spurned themBecause of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

For Yahweh will render justice to His people,And will have compassion on His slaves,When He sees that their strength is gone,And there is none remaining, bond or free.

O nations, cause His people to shout for joy;For He will avenge the blood of His slaves,And He will render vengeance on His adversaries,And He will atone for His land and His people."

Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,

Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

And he said,"Yahweh came from Sinai,And He dawned on them from Seir;He shone forth from Mount Paran,And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones;At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.

"May Reuben live and not die,Nor his men be few."

And this regarding Judah; so he said,"Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah,And bring him to his people.With his hands he contended for them,And may You be a help against his adversaries."

Who said of his father and his mother,‘I did not consider them';And he did not recognize his brothers,Nor did he know his own sons,For they kept Your word,And they observed Your covenant.

O Yahweh, bless his substance,And accept the work of his hands;Crush the loins of those who rise up against him,And those who hate him, so that they will not rise again."

Of Benjamin he said,"May the beloved of Yahweh dwell in security by Him,Who shields him all the day,And he dwells between His shoulders."

Of Joseph he said,"Blessed of Yahweh be his land,With the choice things of heaven, with the dew,And from the deep lying beneath,

And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness,And the favor 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 distinguished among his brothers.

As the firstborn of his ox, splendor is his,And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;With them he will push the peoples,All at once, to the ends of the earth.And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,And those are the thousands of Manasseh."

Then he provided the first part for himself,For there the ruler's portion was reserved;And he came with the heads of the people;He did the righteousness of Yahweh,And His judgments with Israel."

Of Asher he said,"More blessed than sons is Asher;May he be favored by his brothers,And may he dip his foot in oil.