Numbers 23:7-9

Good News Translation

“Balak king of Moab has brought me
From Syria, from the eastern mountains.
‘Come speak for me,’ he said.
‘Put a curse on the people of Israel.’
⁸ How can I curse what God has not cursed,
Or speak of doom when the Lord has not?
⁹ From the high rocks I can see them;
I can watch them from the hills.
They are a nation that lives alone;
They know they are blessed more than other nations.