Numbers 23:3-12

³Balaam said to Balak, “Wait here beside your burnt offering while I go and see if perhaps the Lord will come and meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me, I'll share with you.” Then Balaam left to climb up a rocky crag.

⁴God met with him there, and Balaam said. “I have built seven altars and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”

⁵The Lord gave Balaam a message to share. He told him, “Go back to Balak and this is what you are to say to him.”

⁶So he went back to Balak, who was waiting there beside his burnt offering, along with all the Moabite leaders.

⁷This is the declaration that Balaam gave: “Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the mountains of the east. He said, ‘Come and curse Jacob for me! Come and condemn Israel!’

⁸But how can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I condemn what the Lord has not condemned?

⁹For I'm looking down on them from the top of rocky crags; I'm watching them from the hills. I see a people who live on their own, different from the other nations.

¹⁰Who can count Jacob's descendants? They are so many they're like dust! Who can count even a quarter of the Israelites? I would like to die as a good person dies! Let the end of my life be like their end!”

¹¹Then Balak complained to Balaam, “What on earth have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and now look! All you have done is bless them!”

¹²But Balaam replied, “Don't you think I should I say precisely what the Lord tells me?”