11. Return to your place. I had decided, indeed, to honor you greatly, but the Lord has deprived you of the designated honor."
12. Balaam responded to Balak: "Did I not say to your messengers, whom you sent to me:
13. Even if Balak would give me his house, filled with silver and gold, I still could not go away from the word of the Lord my God, so as to offer anything, either good or evil, from my own heart; but whatever the Lord will speak, this, too, I shall speak.
14. Yet truly, as I continue on to my own people, I will give you counsel as to what this people shall do to your people in the end times."
15. Therefore, taking up his parable, he again spoke: "Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,
16. the hearer of the sermon of God, he who knows the doctrine of the Most High, and who sees the visions of the Almighty, who, falling down, has his eyes opened, has declared:
17. I shall see him, but not presently. I shall gaze upon him, but not soon. A star shall rise out of Jacob, and a rod shall spring up from Israel. And he shall strike down the commanders of Moab, and he shall devastate all the sons of Seth.
18. And he shall possess Idumea; the inheritance of Seir shall fall to their enemies. Yet truly, Israel shall act with strength.
19. From Jacob will be he who shall be ruler. And he shall perish the remnants of the city."
20. And when he saw Amalek, taking up his parable, he said: "Amalek, first among the Gentiles, whose very end shall be perdition."
21. Likewise, he saw the Kainites, and taking up his parable, he said: "Robust, indeed, is your habitation. But though you will set your nest in a rock,