Numbers 24:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by their tribes: and the spirit of God rushing upon him,

³ He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye ire stopped up:

⁴ The hearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened: