So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the princes 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 princes of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
Nevertheless the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.