Why do you sit among the sheepfolds to hear playing of pipes for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was much searching of heart.
Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between two burdens;
Tremble in awe, and do not sin. Meditate within your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its pinions with yellow gold.
I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, and my spirit ponders:
Build for yourselves cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
Moses said to the Gadites and to the Reubenites, “Will your brothers go to war, and you will dwell here?
For all seek their own, not the things of Christ Jesus.
Their destination is destruction, their god is their appetite, their glory is in their shame, their minds are set on earthly things.
The princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar was with Barak; they were sent into the valley on foot. Among the clans of Reuben there was great resolve of heart.