Balaam’s seventh message

23 Then he spoke his message:

‘Alas! Who can live when God does this?[a]
24     Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus;
they will subdue Ashur and Eber,
    but they too will come to ruin.’

25 Then Balaam got up and returned home, and Balak went his own way.

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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.