Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: “Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish.”

Likewise, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, you will have a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

The end of a matter is better than its beginning; likewise, patience is better than pride.

Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” says the Lord. The judgment against Moab ends here.

“Yet in days to come I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” says the Lord.

But Babylonia will be put to great shame. The land where you were born will be disgraced. Indeed, Babylonia will become the least important of all nations. It will become a dry and barren desert.

Then he said, “I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.

Toward the end of their rule, when rebellious acts are complete, a rash and deceitful king will arise.

Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, “Sir, what will happen after these things?”

I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors will die by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs.”

And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.”

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him

fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

In the future the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,