Devine Scripture

Genesis 49:8

Genesis chapter 49 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall bow down before thee.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall bow down before thee.

Context

v.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.

v.8This passage

v.9Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:11

    Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:1

    Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

  • Ezekiel 21:29

    while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

  • 2 Chronicles 15:9

    And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

  • Hebrews 7:14

    For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests.

  • Numbers 1:27

    those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.