4. God met with him, and Balaam said, ‘I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.’
5. The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, ‘Go back to Balak and give him this word.’
6. So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.
7. Then Balaam spoke his message:‘Balak brought me from Aram,the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.“Come,” he said, “curse Jacob for me;come, denounce Israel.”
8. How can I cursethose whom God has not cursed?How can I denouncethose whom the Lord has not denounced?
9. From the rocky peaks I see them,from the heights I view them.I see people who live apartand do not consider themselves one of the nations.
10. Who can count the dust of Jacobor number even a fourth of Israel?Let me die the death of the righteous,and may my final end be like theirs!’