16. I heard this message from God. I learned what God Most High taught me. I saw what God All-Powerful showed me. I humbly tell what I clearly see.
17. “I see him coming, but not now. I see him coming, but not soon. A star will come from the family of Jacob. A new ruler will come from the Israelites. He will smash the heads of the Moabites and crush the heads of all the sons of Sheth.
18. Israel will grow strong! He will get the land of Edom. He will get the land of Seir, his enemy.
19. “A new ruler will come from the family of Jacob. That ruler will destroy the people left alive in that city.”
20. Then Balaam saw the Amalekites and said this: “Amalek is the strongest of all nations, but even Amalek will be destroyed!”
21. Then Balaam saw the Kenites and said this: “You believe that your country is safe, like a bird’s nest high on a mountain.
22. But you Kenites will be destroyed, just as the Lord destroyed Cain. Assyria will make you prisoners.”
23. Then Balaam said this: “No one can live when God does this.
24. Ships will come from Cyprus. They will defeat Assyria and Eber, but those ships will also be destroyed.”
25. Then Balaam got up and went back home, and Balak went his own way.