Numbers 22:38
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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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Proverbs 19:21
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21 You can make many plans,
but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.
Numbers 22:18
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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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Numbers 23:26
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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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Numbers 23:16
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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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Isaiah 47:12
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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.
Isaiah 46:10
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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.
Isaiah 44:25
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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.
Psalm 76:10
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10 Human defiance only enhances your glory,
for you use it as a weapon.[a]
Footnotes
- 76:10 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
2 Chronicles 18:13
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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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1 Kings 22:14
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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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Numbers 24:13
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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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