¹ It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

² He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.

³ Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

⁴ Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."

⁵ Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

⁶ Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

⁷ 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

⁸ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

⁹ Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

¹⁰ You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

¹¹ Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

¹² What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

¹³ His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

¹⁴ He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

¹⁵ Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

¹⁶ She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

¹⁷ She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

¹⁸ He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

¹⁹ Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

²⁰ Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."

²¹ Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

²² Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

²³ He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

²⁴ He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

²⁵ He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

²⁶ His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

²⁷ He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

²⁸ God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

²⁹ Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

³⁰ It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

³¹ He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."

³² Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

³³ Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."

³⁵ He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

³⁶ He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

³⁷ Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"

³⁸ Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

³⁹ Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

⁴⁰ By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

⁴¹ Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

⁴² The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

⁴³ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

⁴⁴ Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;

⁴⁵ until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

⁴⁶ Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

¹ David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

² and he said, "Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

³ God, my rock, in him I will take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

⁴ I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁵ For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

⁶ The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

⁷ In my distress I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry [came] into his ears.

⁸ Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

⁹ Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

¹⁰ He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

¹¹ He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

¹² He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

¹³ At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.

¹⁴ Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

¹⁵ He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.

¹⁶ Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

¹⁷ He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

¹⁸ He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

¹⁹ They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

²⁰ He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²¹ Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

²² For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²³ For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

²⁴ I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

²⁵ Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

²⁶ With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

²⁷ With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

²⁸ You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

²⁹ For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

³⁰ For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

³¹ As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

³² For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

³³ God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.

³⁴ He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], and sets me on my high places.

³⁵ He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

³⁶ You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.

³⁷ You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.

³⁸ I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn again until they were consumed.

³⁹ I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

⁴⁰ For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

⁴¹ You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

⁴² They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

⁴³ Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

⁴⁴ You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

⁴⁵ The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.

⁴⁶ The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

⁴⁷ Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

⁴⁸ even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,

⁴⁹ who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

⁵⁰ Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. Will sing praises to your name.

⁵¹ He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore."