5  How lovely are your tents, O Jacob,

your encampments, O Israel!

6  Like palm groves¹ that stretch afar,

like gardens beside a river,

^xlike aloes ^ythat the Lord has planted,

like cedar trees beside the waters.

7  Water shall flow from his buckets,

and his seed shall be ^zin many waters;

his king shall be higher than ^aAgag,

and ^bhis kingdom shall be exalted.

8  God brings him out of Egypt

and is for him like the ^chorns of the wild ox;

he shall ^deat up the nations, his adversaries,

and shall ^ebreak their bones in pieces

and ^fpierce them through with his arrows.

9  He crouched, he lay down like a lion

and ^glike a lioness; who will rouse him up?

^hBlessed are those who bless you,

and cursed are those who curse you.”

17  ^sI see him, but not now;

I behold him, but not near:

^ta star shall come out of Jacob,

and ^ua scepter shall rise out of Israel;

it shall ^vcrush the forehead¹ of Moab

and break down all the sons of Sheth.

18  ^wEdom shall be dispossessed;

^xSeir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed.

Israel is doing valiantly.

19  And one from Jacob shall exercise dominion

and destroy the survivors of cities!”