¹¹ Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies,^(A) but you have done nothing but bless them!”^(B)

² because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam^(A) to call a curse down on them.^(B) (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)^(C)