“From ^(A)Aram Balak has brought me,
Moab’s king from the mountains of the East, saying,
‘^(B)Come, declare Jacob cursed for me,
And come, curse Israel!’
^8 (C)How am I to put a curse on him upon whom God has not put a curse?
And how am I to curse him whom the Lord has not cursed?
⁹ For I see him from the top of the rocks,
And I look at him from the hills;
^(D)Behold, a people that lives in isolation,
And does not consider itself to be among the nations.