Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you.”
God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for 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 wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.