ECB(i)
1 And Bilam sees it is good in the eyes of Yah Veh to bless Yisra El, and he goes not, as time by time, to confront prognostications, but he sets his face toward the wilderness:
2 and Bilam lifts his eyes and sees Yisra El tabernacling by their scions; and the spirit of Elohim comes on him:
3 and he lifts his proverb and says, - an oracle of Bilam the son of Beor - an oracle of the master whose eyes were shut but now unveiled:
4 - an oracle of him who hears the sayings of El, who sees the vision of Shadday, falling, but eyes exposed,
5 How goodly your tents, O Yaaqov and your tabernacles, O Yisra El!
6 As the wadies they spread, as gardens by the side of the river as the aloes Yah Veh plants and as cedar trees beside the waters.
7 He flows the water from his pails and his seed is in many waters: and his sovereign is more exalted than Agag and his sovereigndom becomes exalted.
8 El brings him from Misrayim; he has as strength of a reem: he eats the goyim his tribulators and craunches their bones and strikes with his arrows.
9 He kneels, he lies down as a lion - as a roaring lion - who rouses him? Blessed, he who blesses you and cursed, he who curses you.
10 And Balaq kindles his wrath against Bilam and he claps his palms together: and Balaq says to Bilam, I call you to curse my enemies, and behold, in blessing, you bless them these three times.
11 and now flee to your place. I had said, In honoring, I honor you; but, behold, Yah Veh withholds you from honor.
12 And Bilam says to Balaq, Worded I not also to your angels whom you sent me, saying,
13 If Balaq gives me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot trespass the mouth of Yah Veh, to work good or evil of my own heart? And what Yah Veh words, I word?
14 And now, behold, I go to my people: come, and I counsel you what this people work to your people in the final days.
15
ORACLE OF BILAM TO THE SON OF BEOR
And he lifts his proverb and says, - an oracle of Bilam the son of Beor - an oracle of the master whose eyes were shut but now unveiled: 16 - an oracle of him who hears the sayings of El and knows the knowledge of Elyon: who sees the vision of Shadday, falling, with eyes uncovered: 17 I see him, but not now: I observe him, but not near: a Star treads from Yaaqov and a Scion rises from Yisra El and strikes the edges of Moab and undermines all the sons of Sheth. 18
ORACLE OF BILAM TO YISRA EL
And Edom becomes a possession, and Seir becomes a possession for his enemies; and Yisra El works valiantly. 19 From Yaaqov comes he who has dominion and destroys him who survives of the city. 20
ORACLE OF BILAM TO AMALEQ
And he sees Amaleq, and lifts his proverb and says, Amaleq, the first of the goyim; and his finality, eternal destruction. 21
ORACLE OF BILAM TO THE QAYINIY
And he sees the Qayiniy and lifts his proverb and says, Perennial, your settlement and your nest, set in a rock: 22 but the Qayiniy is consumed when Ashshur captures you. 23 And he lifts his proverb and says, Woe, who lives when El sets this? 24 And ships from the hand of Kittim, humble Ashshur and humble Heber: and he also becomes to eternal destruction. 25 - and Bilam rises and goes and returns to his place: and Balaq also goes his way.
ORACLE OF BILAM TO THE SON OF BEOR
And he lifts his proverb and says, - an oracle of Bilam the son of Beor - an oracle of the master whose eyes were shut but now unveiled: 16 - an oracle of him who hears the sayings of El and knows the knowledge of Elyon: who sees the vision of Shadday, falling, with eyes uncovered: 17 I see him, but not now: I observe him, but not near: a Star treads from Yaaqov and a Scion rises from Yisra El and strikes the edges of Moab and undermines all the sons of Sheth. 18
ORACLE OF BILAM TO YISRA EL
And Edom becomes a possession, and Seir becomes a possession for his enemies; and Yisra El works valiantly. 19 From Yaaqov comes he who has dominion and destroys him who survives of the city. 20
ORACLE OF BILAM TO AMALEQ
And he sees Amaleq, and lifts his proverb and says, Amaleq, the first of the goyim; and his finality, eternal destruction. 21
ORACLE OF BILAM TO THE QAYINIY
And he sees the Qayiniy and lifts his proverb and says, Perennial, your settlement and your nest, set in a rock: 22 but the Qayiniy is consumed when Ashshur captures you. 23 And he lifts his proverb and says, Woe, who lives when El sets this? 24 And ships from the hand of Kittim, humble Ashshur and humble Heber: and he also becomes to eternal destruction. 25 - and Bilam rises and goes and returns to his place: and Balaq also goes his way.