Catholic Public Domain Version
"Return to your place. I had decided, indeed, to honor you greatly, but the Lord has deprived you of the designated honor.” "
— Numbers 24:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.”
“Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honor; but, lo, Jehovah hath kept thee back from honor. ”
“Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor."”
“So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you, but now the LORD has stood in the way of your honor.””
“Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.”
“Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.”
“Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.”
Away from Egypt, God has led him, whose strength is like the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.
Lying down, he has slept like a lion, and like a lioness, whom no one would dare to awaken. He who blesses you, shall himself also be blessed. He who curses you, shall be considered cursed.”
And Balak, being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together and said: “I called you to curse my enemies, and, to the contrary, you have blessed them three times.
Return to your place. I had decided, indeed, to honor you greatly, but the Lord has deprived you of the designated honor.”
Balaam responded to Balak: “Did I not say to your messengers, whom you sent to me:
Even if Balak would give me his house, filled with silver and gold, I still could not go away from the word of the Lord my God, so as to offer anything, either good or evil, from my own heart; but whatever the Lord will speak, this, too, I shall speak.
Yet truly, as I continue on to my own people, I will give you counsel as to what this people shall do to your people in the end times.”