[Jacob’s last words to Judah]
“Judah, your brothers will praise you. You will grasp your enemies by the neck. ALl your relatives will bow before you.
Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating his prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness-who dares to rouse him: The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants, until the coming of the one to whim it belongs, the one whom all nations will honor. He ties his donkey to a grapevine, the cold of his donkey to a choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. His eyes ae darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.” (vv. 8-12, NLT)