חָבֵר

So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.

He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!

Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.

“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’

…you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’