Numbers 23:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 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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