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Then he uttered his oracle and said,

“From Aram, Balak brought me,
    Moab’s king from the mountains of the east:
‘Come! Curse Jacob for me!
‘Come! Denounce Israel!’
How can I curse one
    whom God has not cursed?
How can I denounce one
    whom Adonai has not denounced?
From the rocky peaks I see him.
From the heights I behold him.
Look, he lives as a nation apart,
    and does not consider himself
    as being like the other nations.

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