Judah is a lion’s cub — you return, my son, from the kill. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness — who dares rouse him?
In context
7Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel. 8Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you. 9Judah is a lion’s cub — you return, my son, from the kill. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness — who dares rouse him? 10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and the obedience of the nations is his. 11He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
