How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
    How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

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How can I curse
    those whom God has not cursed?(A)
How can I denounce
    those whom the Lord has not denounced?(B)

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But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned (A)the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.

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However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse(A) into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves(B) you.

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12 It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me,[a] and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 16:12 Septuagint, Vulgate will look upon my affliction

12 It may be that the Lord will look upon my misery(A) and restore to me his covenant blessing(B) instead of his curse today.(C)

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