TSK · Deuteronomy 23:5

He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed."

Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

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

Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.

"I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;

Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;