6. So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
7. And he lifted up his oracle and said, “From Aram Balak lead me, from the mountains of the east the king of Moab, ‘Go for me, curse Jacob, and go, denounce Israel.’
8. How can I curse whom God has not cursed, and how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced?
9. Because from the top of the rocks I see him, from hilltops I watch him. Behold, a people who dwell alone, they do not consider themselves among the nations.
10. Who can count the dust of Jacob, or as a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!”
11. And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!”
12. He answered and said, “Should I not speak what Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
13. Then Balak said, “Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, but you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”
14. So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15. Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there.”
16. Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, “Return to Balak, and you must speak thus.”
17. He came to him, and behold, he was standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
18. Then he uttered his oracle, and said, “Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor!
19. God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?