² Like a fluttering sparrow, Like a darting swallow, So the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

⁸ How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?

¹² It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.

⁴ because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

⁵ Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

²⁸ Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.

²⁹ Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

⁴³ The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

² because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

²⁸ They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, But your servant shall rejoice.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.