Balaam’s sixth message

21 Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message:

‘Your dwelling-place is secure,
    your nest is set in a rock;
22 yet you Kenites will be destroyed
    when Ashur takes you captive.’

Balaam’s seventh message

23 Then he spoke his message:

‘Alas! Who can live when God does this?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:23 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew The people from the islands will gather from the north.