11 So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”
12 Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,
13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?
14 And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.”
15 Then he uttered this oracle:“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor;the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
16 the oracle of the one who hears the words of God,and who knows the knowledge of the Most High,who sees a vision from the Almighty,although falling flat on the ground with eyes open:
17 ‘I see him, but not now;I behold him, but not close at hand.A star will march forth out of Jacob,and a scepter will rise out of Israel.He will crush the skulls of Moab,and the heads of all the sons of Sheth.