11. Return to your place. I had decided, indeed, to honor you greatly, but the Lord has deprived you of the designated honor."
12. Balaam responded to Balak: "Did I not say to your messengers, whom you sent to me:
13. Even if Balak would give me his house, filled with silver and gold, I still could not go away from the word of the Lord my God, so as to offer anything, either good or evil, from my own heart; but whatever the Lord will speak, this, too, I shall speak.
14. Yet truly, as I continue on to my own people, I will give you counsel as to what this people shall do to your people in the end times."
15. Therefore, taking up his parable, he again spoke: "Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,