Numbers 23:7-9

The Voice

⁷Balaam recited His words.

Balaam: The king of Moab got me to come here, all the way from my home in Aram.
        Balak summoned me from the eastern mountains.
    “Come, curse Jacob for me!”
        “Come, denounce Israel!”
⁸    But I ask you, how can I curse any whom God has not cursed
        or denounce whomever the Eternal has not denounced?
⁹    Here on the heights, from the rocky places where I stand,
        I can see them; from these hills I observe them below.
    And what do I see but a unique and solitary people
        who do not have a place among the nations.