So Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land because the Lord refuses to let me to go with you.”
God said to Balaam, “You will not go with them. You will not curse the people because they are blessed.”
The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam. Instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing on you because the Lord your God loves you.