7. And he took up his oracle and said:“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,From the mountains of the east.‘Come, curse Jacob for me,And come, denounce Israel!’
8. “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
9. For from the top of the rocks I see him,And from the hills I behold him;There! A people dwelling alone,Not reckoning itself among the nations.
10. “Who can count the dust of Jacob,Or number one-fourth of Israel?Let me die the death of the righteous,And let my end be like his!”