So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the officials of Balak, “Go to your own land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”
God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
So the officials of Moab rose and went to Balak and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
(Yet the Lord your God refused to heed Balaam; the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.)