"And he took up his oracle and said: / Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, / From the mountains of the east. / ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, / And come, denounce Israel!’ / How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? / And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced? / For from the top of the rocks I see him. / And from the hills I behold him; / There! A people dwelling alone, / Not reckoning itself among the nations. / Who can count the dust of Jacob, / Or number one-fourth of Israel? / Let me die the death of the righteous, / And let my end be like his!"