38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? (A)The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”

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38 “Well, I have come to you now,” Balaam replied. “But I can’t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”(A)

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21 (A)Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
    but (B)it is the purpose of the Lord (C)that will stand.

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21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.(A)

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18 But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, (A)“Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, (B)I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more.

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18 But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the Lord my God.(A)

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26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, (A)‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”

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26 Balaam answered, “Did I not tell you I must do whatever the Lord says?”(A)

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16 And the Lord met Balaam and (A)put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.”

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16 The Lord met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth(A) and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”

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12 (A)Stand fast in your enchantments
    and your many sorceries,
    with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
    perhaps you may inspire terror.

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12 “Keep on, then, with your magic spells
    and with your many sorceries,(A)
    which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
    perhaps you will cause terror.

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10 (A)declaring the end from the beginning
    and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, (B)‘My counsel shall stand,
    and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

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10 I make known the end from the beginning,(A)
    from ancient times,(B) what is still to come.(C)
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,(D)
    and I will do all that I please.’

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25 who frustrates the signs of liars
    and makes fools of diviners,
(A)who turns wise men back
    and makes their knowledge foolish,

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25 who foils(A) the signs of false prophets
    and makes fools of diviners,(B)
who overthrows the learning of the wise(C)
    and turns it into nonsense,(D)

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10 Surely (A)the wrath of man shall praise you;
    the remnant[a] of wrath you will put on like a belt.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 76:10 Or extremity

10 Surely your wrath against mankind brings you praise,(A)
    and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 76:10 Or Surely the wrath of mankind brings you praise, / and with the remainder of wrath you arm yourself

10 The Lord (A)brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
    he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

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10 The Lord foils(A) the plans(B) of the nations;(C)
    he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

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13 But Micaiah said, (A)“As the Lord lives, (B)what my God says, that I will speak.”

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13 But Micaiah said, “As surely as the Lord lives, I can tell him only what my God says.”(A)

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14 But Micaiah said, (A)“As the Lord lives, (B)what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”

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14 But Micaiah said, “As surely as the Lord lives, I can tell him only what the Lord tells me.”(A)

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13 (A)‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad (B)of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?

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13 ‘Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the Lord(A)—and I must say only what the Lord says’?(B)

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