Perhaps Adonai will look on my affliction and return good to me for his cursing this day.”
Deuteronomy 23:5 - Tree of Life Version because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way when you came out from Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor from Petor of Aram-naharaim to curse you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loves you. American Standard Version (1901) Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee. Common English Bible But the LORD your God wasn’t interested in listening to Balaam. The LORD your God turned that curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you. Catholic Public Domain Version But the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he turned his cursing into your blessing, because he loves you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam: and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee. |
Perhaps Adonai will look on my affliction and return good to me for his cursing this day.”
For they did not meet Bnei-Yisrael with bread and water, but instead hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
A psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to the pure in heart.
Like a fluttering sparrow or a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse does not land.
Again I will build you, so you will be rebuilt, virgin Israel! Again you will take up your tambourines as ornaments, and go out to dances of merrymakers.
“Again I passed by and saw you, and behold, you were truly at the time of love. I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says Adonai. “So you became Mine.
O My people, remember, please: What did Balak, king of Moab, propose? What did Balaam son of Beor answer him? From Shittim as far as Gilgal, so that you might acknowledge the righteous acts of Adonai.”
“I loved you,” says Adonai. But you say: “How have you loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” —it is the declaration of Adonai— “Yet I loved Jacob
The angel of Adonai said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only the word that I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s princes.
He sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, at Pethor near the River in his native land, saying to him, “Look now, a people has come out of Egypt. See now, they cover the surface of the earth and are settling beside me.
He crouches like a lion or a lioness— who would rouse him? He who blesses you will be blessed, and he who curses you will be cursed.”
Concerning the Good News, they are hostile for your sake; but concerning chosenness, they are loved on account of the fathers—
What then shall we say in view of these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
For our trouble, light and momentary, is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
as the sons of Esau dwelling in Seir and the Moabites in Ar did for me—until I cross over the Jordan into the land that Adonai our God is giving to us.’
Indeed, a lover of peoples is He— all His kedoshim are in His hand. They followed in Your steps, each receiving Your words.
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them. Then He brought you out from Egypt with His presence, by His great power—
But I refused to listen to Balaam; instead, he had to keep blessing you. Thus I delivered you from his hand.