Catholic Public Domain Version

Numbers 24:13-17 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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,

16. the hearer of the sermon of God, he who knows the doctrine of the Most High, and who sees the visions of the Almighty, who, falling down, has his eyes opened, has declared:

17. I shall see him, but not presently. I shall gaze upon him, but not soon. A star shall rise out of Jacob, and a rod shall spring up from Israel. And he shall strike down the commanders of Moab, and he shall devastate all the sons of Seth.