Numbers 24:4-21

⁴Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes:

⁵How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwelling, O Israel!

⁶As streams are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as aloe-trees, which the Lord hath planted, as cedar-trees beside the waters.

⁷Water runneth out of His buckets, that his seed may be moistened by abundance of water; and exalted above Agag shall be his king, and raised on high shall be his kingdom.

⁸God, who brought him forth out of Egypt, is to him like the heights of the reem; he will devour nations, his oppressors, and their bones will he break, and pierce them through with his arrows.

⁹He coucheth, he lieth down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall make him rise up? They that bless thee be blessed, and they that curse thee be cursed.

¹⁰And the anger of Balak was kindled against Bil'am, and he struck his hands together: and Balak said unto Bil'am, To denounce my enemies did I call thee, and, behold, thou hast even blessed them these three times.

¹¹And now flee thou to thy place: I thought to honor thee greatly; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honor.

¹²And Bil'am said unto Balak, Did I not already speak to thy messengers, whom thou sentest unto me, saying,

¹³If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord, to do good or evil out of my own heart: what the Lord will speak, that must I speak?

¹⁴And now, behold, I am going unto my people: come, I will advise thee against what this people will do to thy people in the end of days.

¹⁵And he took up his parable and said, Thus saith Bil'am the son of Beor, and thus saith the man whose eyes are open;

¹⁶Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, and knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes:

¹⁷I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there steppeth forth a star out of Jacob, and there ariseth a sceptre out of Israel, and he pierceth the chiefs of Moab, and destroyeth all the children of Sheth.

¹⁸And Edom shall be a conquest, and Seir shall be a conquest for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

¹⁹And there shall rule the one from Jacob, and he shall destroy whatever escapeth out of the city.

²⁰And he looked on Amalek, and he took up his parable, and said, The first of nations is Amalek; but his latter end shall be destruction for ever.

²¹And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and placed on the rock is thy nest.