And whenBalaam saw that it pleased the LORD to blessIsrael, he went not, as at othertimes, to seek for enchantments, but he set his facetoward the wilderness.
As the valleys are theyspreadforth, as gardens by the river’sside, as the trees of lignaloeswhich the LORDhathplanted, and as cedartreesbeside the waters.
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shallbreaktheirbones, and piercethemthroughwith his arrows.
And Balak’sanger was kindledagainstBalaam, and he smote his handstogether: and BalaksaiduntoBalaam, I calledthee to cursemineenemies, and, behold, thouhastaltogetherblessedthemthesethreetimes.
If Balakwouldgive me his housefull of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do eithergood or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORDsaith, thatwill I speak?
He hathsaid, whichheard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the mostHigh, which saw the vision of the Almighty, fallinginto a trance, but having his eyesopen:
I shall see him, but not now: I shallbehold him, but not nigh: thereshallcome a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptreshallrise out of Israel, and shallsmite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.