Numbers 24:3-9

English Standard Version

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