How can I curse someone God has not cursed?
How can I denounce someone the Lord has not denounced?

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How can I curse
    those whom God has not cursed?(A)
How can I denounce
    those whom the Lord has not denounced?(B)

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Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves(A) you.(B)

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However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse(A) into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves(B) you.

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12 Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction[a] and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 16:12 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Vg; one Hb tradition reads iniquity; alt Hb tradition reads eyes; ancient Jewish tradition reads will look with His eye

12 It may be that the Lord will look upon my misery(A) and restore to me his covenant blessing(B) instead of his curse today.(C)

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