Numbers 24:3-9

Revised Standard Version

“The oracle of Balaam the son of Be′or,
    the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,^[a]
4 the oracle of him who hears the words of God,
    who sees the vision of the Almighty,
    falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:
⁵ How fair are your tents, O Jacob,
    your encampments, O Israel!
⁶ Like valleys that stretch afar,
    like gardens beside a river,
like aloes that the Lord has planted,
    like cedar trees beside the waters.
⁷ Water shall flow from his buckets,
    and his seed shall be in many waters,
his king shall be higher than Agag,
    and his kingdom shall be exalted.
⁸ God brings him out of Egypt;
    he has as it were the horns of the wild ox,
he shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
    and shall break their bones in pieces,
    and pierce them through with his arrows.
⁹ He couched, he lay down like a lion,
    and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed be every one who blesses you,
    and cursed be every one who curses you.”