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How can I curse someone God has not cursed?
How can I denounce someone the Lord has not denounced?

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Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but he turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves(A) you.(B)

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12 Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction[a] and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.’

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Footnotes

  1. 16:12 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Vg; one Hb tradition reads iniquity; alt Hb tradition reads eyes; another Hb tradition reads will look with his eye