12. Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I indeed tell your messengers whom you sent to me saying:
13. ‘If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the mouth of Adonai, to do good or bad from my own heart? Whatever Adonai may speak, I will speak!’
14. Now, behold, I am going back to my people. Come, let me counsel you what these people will do to your people in the latter days.
15. Then he uttered his oracle: The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the strong man whose eye is opened,
16. the oracle of one hearing God’s speech, one experiencing Elyon’s knowledge, one seeing Shaddai’s vision, one fallen down, yet with open eyes:
17. ‘I see him, yet not at this moment. I behold him, yet not in this location. For a star will come from Jacob, a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of all the sons of Seth.
18. Edom will be conquered— his enemies will conquer Seir, but Israel will triumph.
19. One from Jacob will rule and destroy the city’s survivors.”
20. Then he saw Amalek, so he uttered his oracle and said: “Amalek was the first of nations, but will come to ruin at last.”
21. Then he saw the Kenite, so he uttered his oracle and said, “Your dwelling is secure. Your nest is set in the rock.
22. Yet Kain will be destroyed, when Asshur captures you.”