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38 Balaam replied, “Look, now I have come, but I have no power to say whatever I want. I will speak only the message that God puts in my mouth.”

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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 You can make many plans,
    but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.

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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 responded to Balak’s messengers, “Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I would be powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord my God.

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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 replied to Balak, “Didn’t I tell you that I can do only what the Lord tells me?”

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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 gave him a message. Then he said, “Go back to Balak and give him my message.”

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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 “Now use your magical charms!
    Use the spells you have worked at all these years!
Maybe they will do you some good.
    Maybe they can make someone afraid of you.

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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 Only I can tell you the future
    before it even happens.
Everything I plan will come to pass,
    for I do whatever I wish.

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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 I expose the false prophets as liars
    and make fools of fortune-tellers.
I cause the wise to give bad advice,
    thus proving them to be fools.

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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 Human defiance only enhances your glory,
    for you use it as a weapon.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 76:10 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

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 frustrates the plans of the nations
    and thwarts all their schemes.

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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 replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, I will say only what my God says.”

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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 replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, I will say only what the Lord tells me to say.”

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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 ‘Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I would be powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord.’ I told you that I could say only what the Lord says!

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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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