Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (alt
Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together and said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse
The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”
And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘C
‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. P