Lexicon :: Strong's H7257 - rāḇaṣ

“Judah, a lion’s cub;

With the prey, my son, you have gone high up [the mountain].

He stooped down, he crouched like a lion,

And like a lion—who dares rouse him?

“Issachar is [like] a strong-boned donkey,

Crouching down between the sheepfolds.

By the God of your father who will help you,

And by the [fn]Almighty who blesses you

With blessings of the heavens above,

Blessings lying in the deep that couches beneath,

Blessings of the [nursing] breasts and of the [fertile] womb.

“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother [bird] is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

And of [fn]Joseph he said,

“Blessed by the LORD be his land,

With the precious things of heaven, with the dew,

And from the deep water that lies beneath,

“You would lie down with no one to frighten you,

And many would entreat and seek your favor.

He lets me lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still and quiet waters.

When the sun arises, they withdraw

And lie down in their dens.

“Tell me, O you whom my soul loves,

Where do you pasture your flock,

Where do you make it lie down at noon?

For why should I be like one who is veiled

Beside the flocks of your companions?”

And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,

And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,

And the calf and the young lion and the fatted steer together;

And a little child will lead them.

Babylon will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;

Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,

Nor will the shepherds let their sheep lie down there.

“The firstborn of the helpless [of Judah] will feed [on My meadows],

And the needy will lie down in safety;

But I will kill your root with famine,

And your survivors will be put to death.

“The cities of Aroer [east of the Jordan] are deserted;

They will be [only a refuge] for flocks to lie down in,

And there will be no one to make them afraid.

For the fortified city is isolated,

A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and [fn]feed on its branches.

“O you afflicted [city], storm-tossed, and not comforted,

Listen carefully, I will set your [precious] stones in mortar,

And lay your foundations with sapphires.

“Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘There will again be in this desolate place—[a place] without man or animal—and in all its cities, pastures for shepherds who rest their flocks.

‘What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]?

A lioness among lions!

She lay down among young lions,

She reared her cubs.

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers,

[Boastfully] declaring, ‘My Nile is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

The [fn]seacoast will belong

To the remnant of the house of Judah;

They will pasture [their flocks] on it.

In the [deserted] houses of Ashkelon [in Philistia] they [of Judah] will lie down and rest in the evening,

For the LORD their God will care for them;

And restore their fortune [permitting them to occupy the land].

Flocks will lie down in her midst,

All the animals which range in herds;

Both the pelican and the short-eared owl

Will roost on the top of Nineveh’s pillars.

Birds will sing in the window,

Desolation will be on the threshold;

For He has uncovered the cedar paneling.

“The remnant of Israel will do no wrong

Nor speak lies,

Nor will a deceitful tongue

Be found in their mouths;

For they will eat and lie down

With no one to make them tremble and feel afraid.”