12. Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not speak to your messengers which you sent to me, saying,
13. ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the mouth of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own mind. But what the Lord speaks, I will speak’?
14. And now, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days.”
15. He took up his parable and said: “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,and the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
16. the oracle of the one hearing the words of God,and knowing the knowledge of the Most High,who sees the vision of the Almighty,falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17. “I will see him, but not now;I will behold him, but not near;a star will come out of Jacob,and a scepter will rise out of Israel,and will crush the borderlands of Moab,and destroy all the children of Sheth.