There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.

You must recognize the authority of the Lord who commands armies. He is the one you must respect; he is the one you must fear.

Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels.

He must take a wife who is a virgin.

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

He will deliver Israel from all the consequences of their sins.

Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.

Do not crave that ruler’s delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

Later Hezron had sexual relations with the daughter of Makir, the father of Gilead. (He had married her when he was sixty years old.) She bore him Segub.

Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!

Asher’s food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty.

But it was he who filled their houses with good things – yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

He judges the world fairly; he makes just legal decisions for the nations.

Commit your future to the Lord! Trust in him, and he will act on your behalf.

By God’s power we will conquer; he will trample down our enemies.