Genesis 49:6

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Summary

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

O my soul

Come

Secret

Unto their

Honour

Psalm 16:9

Psalm 30:12

Psalm 57:8

A man

Genesis 34:25

General references

Numbers 1:22

Bible References

O my soul

The wadi torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, [with] strength!

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, [for] the salvation of his presence.

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.

Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and all within me, [bless] his holy name.

My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear [in] my inner self the sound of a horn, [the] alarm of war.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many possessions stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, celebrate!" '

Come

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I [am] few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed--I and my household!"

Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

I do not sit with deceitful people, nor will I go about with hypocrites.

Do not drag me away with [the] wicked or with [the] workers of evil, [who] speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil [is] in their heart.

Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?

If only you would kill the wicked, O God-- so get away from me, [you] {bloodthirsty men}--

If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

Secret

'Cursed be the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Do not destroy me with [the] sinners, nor my life with men of bloodshed,

Hide me from [the] secret plots of evildoers, from [the] unrest of [those who] do iniquity,

I sat not in the assembly of jokers, [nor did] I exult. Because of the {presence} of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me [with] indignation.

Unto their

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of [the] wicked; nor does he stand in [the] way of sinners; nor does he sit in [the] assembly of mockers.

Do not destroy me with [the] sinners, nor my life with men of bloodshed,

Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?

Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation [is there between] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [does] light [have] with darkness?

Honour

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. Yes, my body will dwell in safety,

so that {I} may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

Awake, my glory; Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake [the] dawn.

A man

And it happened [that] on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.

General references

From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, those who were counted according to [the] number of their names, every individual male from {twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war: