3 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering and I will go. If the Lord comes to me, I will tell you whatever he shows me.” Then Balaam went to a higher place.
4 God came to Balaam there, and Balaam said to him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a male sheep on each altar.”
5 The Lord told Balaam what he should say. Then the Lord said, “Go back to Balak and give him this message.”
6 So Balaam went back to Balak. Balak and all the leaders of Moab were still standing beside his burnt offering
7 when Balaam gave them this message:“Balak brought me here from Aram;the king of Moab brought me from the eastern mountains.Balak said, ‘Come, put a curse on the people of Jacob for me.Come, call down evil on the people of Israel.’
8 But God has not cursed them,so I cannot curse them.The Lord has not called down evil on them,so I cannot call down evil on them.
9 I see them from the top of the mountains;I see them from the hills.I see a people who live alone,who think they are different from other nations.