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How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
    How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?
For from the top of the crags I see him,
    from the hills I behold him.
Here is a people living alone,
    and not reckoning itself among the nations!
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob,
    or number the dust-cloud[a] of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright,
    and let my end be like his!”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 23:10 Or fourth part

How can I curse
    those whom God has not cursed?(A)
How can I denounce
    those whom the Lord has not denounced?(B)
From the rocky peaks I see them,
    from the heights I view them.(C)
I see a people who live apart
    and do not consider themselves one of the nations.(D)
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob(E)
    or number even a fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,(F)
    and may my final end be like theirs!(G)

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