Numbers 24:5-20

⁵How fair be thy tabernacles, Jacob, and thy tents, Israel!

⁶as valleys full of trees, and moist gardens beside floods, as tabernacles which the Lord hath set, as cedar trees beside waters;

⁷water shall flow of his bucket, and his seed shall be into many waters, that is, peoples. The king of him shall be taken away for Agag, and the realm of him shall be done away.

⁸God led him out of Egypt, whose strength is like an unicorn; the sons of Israel shall waste, or devour, heathen men, their enemies; and they shall break the bones of them, and pierce with arrows.

⁹He rested, and slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom no man shall dare raise. He that blesseth thee, shall be blessed; and he that curseth, shall be areckoned into cursing.

¹⁰And Balak was wroth against Balaam, and he said, when his hands were wrung together, I called thee to curse mine enemies, whom, on the contrary, thou hast blessed thrice.

¹¹Turn again to thy place; forsooth I deemed to honour thee greatly, but the Lord deprived thee from thine honour disposed.

¹²Balaam answered to Balak, Whether I said not to thy messengers, which thou sentest to me,

¹³Though Balak shall give to me his house full of silver and of gold, I shall not be able to pass over the word of my Lord God, that I bring forth of mine heart anything, either of good or of evil, but whatever thing the Lord shall say, I shall speak that?

¹⁴Nevertheless I shall go to my people, and I shall give counsel to thee, what thy people shall do in the last time to this people.

¹⁵Therefore when a parable was taken, he said again, Balaam, the son of Beor said, a man, whose eye is stopped, said,

¹⁶the hearer of God’s words said, which knoweth the doctrine of the Highest, and seeth the revelation of Almighty God, which falleth down, and hath open eyes,

¹⁷I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh; a star shall be born of Jacob, and a rod shall rise of Israel; and he shall smite the dukes of Moab, and he shall waste all the sons of Seth;

¹⁸and Idumea shall be his possession, the heritage of Seir shall befall to his enemies; soothly Israel shall do strongly,

¹⁹of Jacob shall be he that shall be lord, and shall lose the relics, or remnants, of the city.

²⁰And when he had seen Amalek, he took a parable, and said, Amalek is the beginning of heathen men, whose last things shall be lost.