11 ⌊Flee⌋j to your place now. I said I would richly honor you, but look, Yahweh has withheld honor from you.” 12 Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, 13 ‘If Balak gave to me the fullness of his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond ⌊the command of Yahweh⌋k to do good or evil, from my heart; what Yahweh speaks, I will speak’?l 14 And now, look, I am about to go to my people; I will advise you what this people will do to your people ⌊in the following days⌋.”m

15 And he ⌊uttered⌋n his oracle and said,

“The declaration of Balaam son of Beor,

and the declaration of the man whose eye is closed,

16 the declaration of the hearer of God’s words,o

and the knower of the knowledge of the Most High,

who sees the vision of Shaddai,p

who is falling, and his eyes are revealed.

17 I see him, but not now;

I behold him, but not near;

a star will go out from Jacob,

and a scepter will rise from Israel;

it will crush the foreheads of Moab

and destroy all the children of Seth.

18 Edom will be a captive;

Seir, its enemies, will be a captive,

and Israel will be acting ⌊courageously⌋.q