Numbers 23:11

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¹¹Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies,^(A) but you have done nothing but bless them!”^(B)

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Numbers 24:10

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¹⁰Then Balak’s anger burned^(A) against Balaam. He struck his hands together^(B) and said to him, “I summoned you to curse my enemies,^(C) but you have blessed them^(D) these three times.^(E)

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Nehemiah 13:2

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²because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam^(A) to call a curse down on them.^(B) (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)^(C)

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Numbers 22:11

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¹¹‘A people that has come out of Egypt covers the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps then I will be able to fight them and drive them away.’”

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Psalm 109:17-20

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¹⁷He loved to pronounce a curse—
    may it come back on him.^(A)
He found no pleasure in blessing—
    may it be far from him.
¹⁸He wore cursing^(B) as his garment;
    it entered into his body like water,^(C)
    into his bones like oil.
¹⁹May it be like a cloak wrapped^(D) about him,
    like a belt tied forever around him.
²⁰May this be the Lord’s payment^(E) to my accusers,
    to those who speak evil^(F) of me.

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Numbers 23:7-8

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⁷Then Balaam^(A) spoke his message:^(B)

“Balak brought me from Aram,^(C)
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.^(D)
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me;
    come, denounce Israel.’^(E)
⁸How can I curse
    those whom God has not cursed?^(F)
How can I denounce
    those whom the Lord has not denounced?^(G)