18. I wait for Your salvation, O Lord.
19. Gad–a raiding troop shall raid him, but he shall raid at their heels and assault them [victoriously].
20. Asher's food [supply] shall be rich and fat, and he shall yield and deliver royal delights.
21. Naphtali is a hind let loose which yields lovely fawns.
22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well (spring or fountain), whose branches run over the wall.
23. Skilled archers have bitterly attacked and sorely worried him; they have shot at him and persecuted him.
24. But his bow remained strong and steady and rested in the Strength that does not fail him, for the arms of his hands were made strong and active by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, [Gen. 48:15; Deut. 32:4; Isa. 9:6; 49:26.]
25. By the God of your father, Who will help you, and by the Almighty, Who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings lying in the deep beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
26. The blessings of your father [on you] are greater than the blessings of my forefathers [Abraham and Isaac on me] and are as lasting as the bounties of the eternal hills; they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was the consecrated one and the one separated from his brethren and [the one who] is prince among them.