Then Balaam spoke his message: "Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. "Come,' he said, 'curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'
NIV
Balaam took up his [figurative] speech and said: Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me; and come, violently denounce Israel.
AMP
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
KJV
And he spoke his message: "The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,"
NIV
And he took up his [figurative] discourse and said: Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eye is opened [at last, to see clearly the purposes and will of God]AMP
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
KJV
Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his message: "Amalek was first among the nations, but they will come to ruin at last."
NIV
[Balaam] looked at Amalek and took up his [prophetic] utterance, and said: Amalek is the foremost of the [neighboring] nations, but in his latter end he shall come to destruction.
AMP
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
KJV
Tell this rebellious house a parable and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "Put on the cooking pot; put it on and pour water into it."
NIV
And utter a parable against the rebellious house [of Judah] and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Put on a pot; put it on and also pour water into it.
AMP
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
KJV
