“God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.”
'God, who brought them out of Egypt, is like the horns of a wild ox for them; he shall devour the nations that are his foes, and break their bones. He shall strike with his arrows' — Balaam repeats the wild ox imagery from the second oracle, intensifying it with violent language. God is Israel's mighty protector who 'devours nations' that are 'his foes' (literally, 'his adversaries,' tsarav). The bones are broken, arrows strike; God's warfare is total and destructive. Israel's enemies will be utterly defeated.
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