Numbers 22:38
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38 Balaam said to Balak, “I have come to you now, but do I have power to say just anything? The word God puts in my mouth, that is what I must say.”(A)
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Numbers 22:18
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18 But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Although Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God, to do less or more.(A)
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Numbers 23:26
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26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Whatever the Lord says, that is what I must do’?”(A)
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Numbers 23:16
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16 The Lord met Balaam, put a word into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you shall say.”(A)
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Isaiah 47:12
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12 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.(A)
Isaiah 46:10
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10 declaring the outcome from the beginning
and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, “My purpose shall stand,
and I will fulfill my intention,”(A)
Isaiah 44:25
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25 who frustrates the omens of soothsayers
and makes fools of diviners;
who turns back the wise
and makes their knowledge foolish;(A)
Proverbs 19:21
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21 The human mind may devise many plans,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.(A)
Psalm 76:10
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10 Human wrath serves only to praise you,
when you bind the last bit of your[a] wrath around you.(A)
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- 76.10 Heb lacks your
Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.(A)
2 Chronicles 18:13
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13 But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak.”(A)
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1 Kings 22:14
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14 But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”(A)
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Numbers 24:13
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13 ‘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 of my own will; what the Lord says, that is what I will say’?(A)
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