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18 He took up his parable, and said, |Rise up, Balak, and hear. Listen to me, you son of Zippor. 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? 20 Look, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it. 21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them. 22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. 23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, what has God done. 24 Look, the people rises up as a lioness, as a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.| 25 Balak said to Balaam, |Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.| 26 But Balaam answered Balak, |Did I not tell you, saying, 'All that God speaks, that I must do?'| 27 Balak said to Balaam, |Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.| 28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. 29 Balaam said to Balak, |Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.| 30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. Numbers 23:18-30, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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