Numbers 23:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

“Balak has brought me from Aram,
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, curse Jacob for me.
    Come, denounce Israel!’^(A)
8 How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
    How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?^(B)
9 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!^(C)