Numbers 23:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

“Balak has brought me from Aram,
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, curse Jacob for me;
    Come, denounce Israel!’
⁸ How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
    How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?
⁹ For from the top of the crags I see him,
    from the hills I behold him.
Here is a people living alone,
    and not reckoning itself among the nations!