5 Then the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he took up his oracle and said:“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,From the mountains of the east.‘Come, curse Jacob for me,And come, denounce Israel!’
8 “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him,And from the hills I behold him;There! A people dwelling alone,Not reckoning itself among the nations.
10 “Who can count the dust of Jacob,Or number one-fourth of Israel?Let me die the death of the righteous,And let my end be like his!”
11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have blessed them bountifully!”