It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.

They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and grab it by the tail” – so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand –

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

Tell him, ‘Make sure you stay calm! Don’t be afraid! Don’t be intimidated by these two stubs of smoking logs, or by the raging anger of Rezin, Syria, and the son of Remaliah.