3 And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height,
4 and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5 And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.
7 And Balaam took up his discourse and said,“From Aram Balak has brought me,the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:‘Come, curse Jacob for me,and come, denounce Israel!’
8 How can I curse whom God has not cursed?How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
9 For from the top of the crags I see him,from the hills I behold him;behold, a people dwelling alone,and not counting itself among the nations!