Numbers 24:14-19

New International Version

¹⁴Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you of what this people will do to your people in days to come.”^(A)

Balaam’s Fourth Message

¹⁵Then he spoke his message:

“The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor,
    the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,
¹⁶the prophecy of one who hears the words^(B) of God,
    who has knowledge from the Most High,^(C)
who sees a vision from the Almighty,
    who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:

¹⁷“I see him, but not now;
    I behold him, but not near.^(D)
A star will come out of Jacob;^(E)
    a scepter will rise out of Israel.^(F)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,^(G)
    the skulls^[a]^(H) of^[b] all the people of Sheth.^[c]
¹⁸Edom^(I) will be conquered;
    Seir,^(J) his enemy, will be conquered,^(K)
    but Israel^(L) will grow strong.
¹⁹A ruler will come out of Jacob^(M)
    and destroy the survivors of the city.”

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Footnotes

Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters