⁵ How lovely are your tents, O Jacob,
    your encampments, O Israel!
⁶ Like palm groves^[a] that stretch afar,
    like gardens beside a river,
^(A)like aloes ^(B)that the Lord has planted,
    like cedar trees beside the waters.
⁷ Water shall flow from his buckets,
    and his seed shall be ^(C)in many waters;
his king shall be higher than ^(D)Agag,
    and ^(E)his kingdom shall be exalted.
⁸ God brings him out of Egypt
    and is for him like the ^(F)horns of the wild ox;
he shall ^(G)eat up the nations, his adversaries,
    and shall ^(H)break their bones in pieces
    and ^(I)pierce them through with his arrows.
⁹ He crouched, he lay down like a lion
    and ^(J)like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
^(K)Blessed are those who bless you,
    and cursed are those who curse you.”