So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go back to your land, for the Lord has refused to give me permission to go with you.”
Nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.
And the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
And God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”