¹⁶ Why sat you among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

²⁴ Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.

¹ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle;

² the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

³ Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

⁴ the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.

⁵ They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan.

¹⁵ The princes of Issachar were with Deborah; As was Issachar, so was Barak; Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben There were great resolves of heart.

⁴ Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

⁶ I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; My spirit diligently inquires:

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

²¹ For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.