Numbers 24:16-18

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¹⁶ this is the ·message [utterance] of a man who hears the words of God.
    I know well the Most High God.
I see a vision from the Almighty,
    and my eyes are open as I fall before him.
¹⁷ I see someone ·who will come someday [^Lbut not now],
    ·someone who will come, but not soon [^LI see him, but not near].
A star will come from Jacob;
    a ·ruler [^Lscepter] will rise from Israel [^CSaul, then David and his descendants, including the Messiah].
He will crush the heads of the Moabites
    and smash the skulls of the sons of Sheth [^Cidentity uncertain].
¹⁸ Edom will be conquered;
    his enemy Edom will be conquered,
    but Israel will grow ·wealthy [or valiant].