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For from the top of the crags I see him,
    from the heights I behold him.
Here is a people that lives apart[a]
    and does not reckon itself among the nations.
10 Who has ever counted the dust of Jacob,
    who numbered Israel’s dust-cloud?[b]
May I die the death of the just,
    may my end be like theirs!

11 “What have you done to me?” cried Balak to Balaam. “It was to lay a curse on my foes that I brought you here; but instead, you have blessed them!”

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Footnotes

  1. 23:9 A people that lives apart: that is, “securely”; cf. Dt 33:28.
  2. 23:10 The dust of Jacob…Israel’s dust-cloud: the Israelites will be as numerous as the dust kicked up by Israel in its march through the wilderness.