The next morning Balaam got up and said to Balak’s officials, “Go back to your own country, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”
However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.
So the Moabite officials returned to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”
But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.”