Genesis 49:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ Judah is a lion’s whelp;
    from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he couched as a lion,
    and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up?
¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs;^[a]
    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine
    and his ass’s colt to the choice vine,
he washes his garments in wine
    and his vesture in the blood of grapes;