Struggled With God

Esau was firstborn, but Jacob soon followed For all of his young life, seems Jacob deceived Esau, the loser whenever they struggled Jacob did not trust God, constantly struggled Esau at his heels, now Jacob was followed Dividing his camp up, still Jacob deceived Forgetting God’s promises, he was deceived But that night they wrestled; he and God struggled Limping, victorious, Israel followed He followed, deceived, then he struggled and won ---------- This is in the rhyming style of a tritina, but since I used 2-syllable trailing words, I bumped the line length to 11 syllables instead of 8 to accommodate the last line of the poem. This one was fun: there is wordplay in the Hebrew for Jacob and heel (follow), and also on supplanter/deceiver/usurper, and the name Israel can be translated 'struggles with God'