¹⁷ His honour `is' a firstling of his ox, And his horns `are' horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they `are' the myriads of Ephraim, And they `are' the thousands of Manasseh.

²² God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;

⁵ By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,

¹¹ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah maketh for himself horns of iron, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah, By these thou dost push the Aramaeans till they are consumed;'

¹⁰ And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.

¹ As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel -- for he `is' the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and `he is' not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,

⁸ God is bringing him out of Egypt; As the swiftness of a Reem is to him, He eateth up nations his adversaries, And their bones he breaketh, And `with' his arrows he smiteth,

¹⁹ And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;'

¹ `When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,

⁴ What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness `is' as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.

³ I have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel.

⁷ And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.

⁶ And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,

²¹ Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!

⁹ Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?

¹⁰ Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow `with' his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

¹⁰ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah maketh for himself horns of iron, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah,

³⁷ These `are' families of the sons of Ephraim, by their numbered ones, two and thirty thousand and five hundred. These `are' sons of Joseph by their families.

³⁴ These `are' families of Manasseh, and their numbered ones `are' two and fifty thousand and seven hundred.