Numbers 23:7 CPDV

⁵  Then the Lord placed the word in his mouth, and he said: 'Return to Balak, and you shall say this.'

⁶  Returning, he found Balak standing next to his holocaust, with all the leaders of the Moabites.

⁷  And taking up his parable, he said: 'Balak, king of the Moabites, has led me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. 'Come forth,' he said, 'and curse Jacob. Hurry and condemn Israel.'

⁸  How shall I curse him, whom God has not cursed? For what reason would I condemn him, whom the Lord does not condemn?

⁹  I will look upon him from the tops of the stones, and I will consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and they shall not be counted among the nations.