because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Numbers 24:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, And thy tabernacles, O Israel! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How attractive and considerable are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel! American Standard Version (1901) How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel! Common English Bible How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your camps, Israel! Catholic Public Domain Version 'How beautiful are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your tents, O Israel! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How beautiful are thy tabernacles, O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel! |
because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with banners.
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are homeborn in Israel shall dwell in booths:
The LORD will cut off to the man that doeth this him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
He saith, which heareth the words of God, Which seeth the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river side, As lign-aloes which the LORD hath planted, As cedar trees beside the waters.
Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by the LORD, The shield of thy help, And that is the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.
but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.