Deuteronomy 23:5

‘But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he blessed you repeatedly, and I delivered you from his hand.

“Perhaps Yahweh will look on my affliction and return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”

On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and there was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in flying, So a curse without cause does not come to pass.

“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares Yahweh. “Yet I have loved Jacob;

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’