4. But you are as unruly as a flood,and you will be first no longer.For you went to bed with my wife;you defiled my marriage couch.
5. “Simeon and Levi are two of a kind;their weapons are instruments of violence.
6. May I never join in their meetings;may I never be a party to their plans.For in their anger they murdered men,and they crippled oxen just for sport.
7. A curse on their anger, for it is fierce;a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel.I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob;I will disperse them throughout Israel.
8. “Judah, your brothers will praise you.You will grasp your enemies by the neck.All your relatives will bow before you.
9. Judah, my son, is a young lionthat has finished eating its prey.Like a lion he crouches and lies down;like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?