Day 31: Numbers 21 to 25
Poetry, done well, can move the soul. Read aloud the following words by Balam, a prophet who uttered oracles about Israel:
How beautiful are your tents,
O Jacob,
your dwelling places, O Israel!
Like valleys they spread out,
like gardens beside a river,
like aloes planted by the Lord,
like cedars beside the waters.
Water will flow from their buckets;
their seed will have abundant water.
Their king will be greater than Agag;
their kingdom will be exalted.
God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a wild ox.
They devour hostile nations
and break their bones in pieces;
with their arrows they pierce them.
Like a lion they crouch and lie down,
like a lioness--who dares to rouse
them?
May those who bless you be blessed
and those who curse you be
cursed!
Hear the word of the Lord.
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